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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...state would not consider whether an action favors religion or whether it entangles church and state but rather whether it forces people to join in expressions of a religious belief. The implications of such a change are radical and would call into question hundreds of settled cases. "This will tear the country and each county apart," says Seventh-Day Adventist Boothby. "The unfortunate result would be to create more religious controversy, discontent and disharmony." Says Laycock: "All sorts of astonishing things become O.K. The Constitution then means a lot less than we've thought." Theoretically, Congress could decide, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's Holy War | 12/9/1991 | See Source »

...speech peppered with personal anecdotes about former presidents, former Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee '43 said last night that he thinks lies "tear at the fiber" of democratic government...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Washington Post Editor Bradlee Gives Lecture | 11/15/1991 | See Source »

...away as she nears middle age; things are bad, and they're going to get worse. And Danny despises them both. She needs to break out from them, no matter what danger she might break into. They all need a trauma that will either bind them together or completely tear them apart. So we ran all these changes on the 'good' family. And now that they're imperfect, I love every one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Filming At Full Throttle: MARTIN SCORSESE | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...energy of punk has come into heavy metal. Punk was a socialist thing, and metal was a capitalism thing." Yet both are sneeringly anti-Establishment. In Slave to the Grind, Skid Row proclaims, "Can't be the king of the world/ If you're slave to the grind/ Tear down the rat racial slime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heavy Metal Goes Platinum | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...Western-style economic reforms, which have led to an inflation rate of 170%. Fed up with low pay and high prices, miners hijacked trains and descended on Bucharest. That night thousands of Bucharest residents joined miners, setting barricades on fire and smashing windows as police fought back with tear gas. The next day Roman resigned, defusing the crisis. But many miners were still furious, saying they would not be satisfied until Iliescu himself is gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Romania: Miners and Mayhem | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

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