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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...third book of his Confessions, Augustine offers a penetrating observation on the nature of compassion. He writes, "si enim est malivola benivolentia, quod fieri non potest, potest et ille, qui veraciter sinceriterque miseretur, cupere esse miseros, ut misereatur" (it is only if there could be a malevolent benevolence--which is impossible--that a man who truly and sincerely felt compassion would desire that there be wretched men so that he could bemoan them...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Malevolent Benevolence | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...Supreme Court bans affirmative action altogether, every Governor will have to figure out how to avoid embarrassments like this fall's incoming class at UT-Austin's law school, which has just four black students (down from 31 last year) out of 475. As long as minorities fare worse than whites on SATs and ACTs, eliminating the tests will look like an easy--read cost-free and legal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACE IN AMERICA: WHAT DOES SAT STAND FOR? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

...ut we're certainly not going to knock down a cross that's been there since the place was built," Brady said...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: Crucifixes on Schools Questioned | 4/22/1995 | See Source »

Hollusion 3-D prints are manufactured by the Texas-based NVision Grafix, Inc. According to the company's vice president of marketing, Steve Kersen, the computer-generated posters first came out in August of 1992, when two UT-Austin grads, computer specialist Mike Bielinski and artist Paul Herber, teamed up to create the high-tech aesthetics of Hollusions. The image appears because, by looking "through" the poster instead of at its surface, your brain is tricked. The altered focal point creates the illusion of a three-dimensional image...

Author: By Joshua D. Fine, | Title: Now you don't see it, Now you don't see it | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...agree; the gang enforcement officer with the Portland police maintains that his town has "tolerance for different life-styles, as long as they're liberal life-styles. There's no tolerance for skinheads." Yet rival gangs of bald men with tattoos have now lent this chamomile-and-bean-spro ut metropolis a Mad Max edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Skinhead Against Skinhead | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

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