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Jeffs probably thought history protected him. Texas was probably gun-shy after the 1993 Branch Davidian conflagration near Waco. There was also one legal precedent that gave the FLDS comfort: the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas, that struck down the Texas sodomy law, closing the doors on the bedroom. The decision was hailed by gay activists as a landmark, but it also apparently heartened Jeffs. (It was soon cited by defense attorneys in their plans to appeal the 2003 conviction of a Utah man found guilty of underage sex and bigamy.) Says Mankin: "They thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turning Up the Heat on Polygamists | 7/24/2008 | See Source »

...sort of yellow Shmoo, regards it from below. There is nothing else. It ought to be ridiculous, but it is profoundly haunting, full of an indefinable melancholy provoked by what Miro identified as the main motif of his work: ''tiny forms in vast empty spaces.'' And you are always struck by the sheer amount of work that he lavished upon those tiny forms. The bugs and dogs, even the genital hairs, of Miro's imagination live because of the graphic care expended on them: his solicitude makes them vibrant, his consciousness becomes theirs. Miro claimed that his landscapes ''have nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PUREST DREAMER IN PARIS | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...heard about a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped by an intruder during a ! slumber party, the 22-year-old Age of Innocence star found herself becoming emotional. ''I put my hands over my face like, 'No, no, no, this can't be happening,' '' says Winona, struck by the fact that the missing girl was from her own quiet hometown of Petaluma, California. ''A crime against a child I just don't understand. I had to do something.'' Winona, who has wrapped up a new film, Reality Bites, did do something: she flew to Petaluma and offered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILD IN NEED | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...opportunity,'' says Patrick McGuigan of the right-leaning 721 Group. ''He's probably the most conservative of the pending crop'' of judicial nominations. In the Indiana senate, Manion co-sponsored legislation to permit public schools to post the Ten Commandments just two months after the Supreme Court had struck down a Kentucky law that required such posting. He sometimes appeared on a radio and TV show with his father Clarence, a former dean of the Notre Dame Law School and a leader of the extreme-right John Birch Society. The program gave him a chance to indicate, among other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNMAKING THE APPOINTMENTS The fight is on over Reagan judicial choices | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

...control pedals underfoot. You don't get pedals on the Eastern shuttle. The tourist is much intrigued. Could I learn to fly one of these contraptions? This line of thinking is scarier than orcas or floatplanes because it leads to seductive questions: ''Could I live in this chilly, light-struck wilderness? Could I be an Alaskan?'' Such wild surmising, which is half the fun of travel, churns dependable fantasies anywhere, in Salzburg or Ladakh. But for a U.S. citizen, the daydreams seem especially strong in Alaska. This is, after all, his own nation, yet it is stranger than Zanzibar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN ALASKA, THE PARTY IS ON A light-struck wilderness awes new visitors | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

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