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...nearly doubled during her tenure, which ended when she stepped down earlier this year. Strossen spoke to TIME about her toughest sparring partners, the tension between national security and civil liberties and why the upcoming election is even more important than people may realize. Your father was a Holocaust survivor, and your organization famously represented Neo-Nazis' right to march in Skokie, Ill. Is it difficult to stomach these types of cases, in which the ACLU's principles mean you have to represent this type of group...
...Brief history of: bracelets" was interesting, but as a breast-cancer survivor, I found the omission of the pink bracelet insensitive to thousands of women, men, families and friends who have experienced or will experience this disease [Oct. 13]. Debby Tompkins, WESTFIELD, MASS...
...Danner, executive vice president of the National Federation of Independent Business, says most of his 350,000 members are "some combination of nervous, scared, in the trenches. At the moment, credit is not a problem only because they're in survivor mode, waiting to see if they're going to have customers tomorrow." David Guernsey, who owns an office-products firm in Chantilly, Va., knows the feeling. While less expensive items are selling, purchases of office furniture that are normally bank-financed are lagging. Customers are telling his sales staff, "We just need to circle the wagons and wait this...
...recent months, Stanek has been working with an independent group, BornAliveTruth.org, which has been running television ads in swing states that feature an abortion survivor, Gianna Jessen, who says that "if Barack Obama had his way, I wouldn't be here." This claim is misleading, because Jessen was deemed viable after she was born following an abortion procedure. In an interview with TIME, Stanek argued that the ad should still be seen as accurate, since it is possible that a doctor could have made a different decision. "It is more of a hypothetical," she said. "Obama would have agreed with...
...smell, asking, “Good, right?” At times, Smith assumed the position of the interviewer in order to create different kinds of portraits, and at other times her presence as an actor became especially conspicuous, as when she impersonated Henriette Mutigwarba, a Rwandan genocide survivor. Smith as Mutigwarba recounted how her mother begged militiamen, with arms outstretched, to spare to her son’s life—only to have her arms cut off so she could no longer beg. As she told her character’s story, Smith bent over in her chair...