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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...came home with good news: the state DNA lab had caught her rapist. Norman Jimmerson, in fact, was already in jail, convicted of kidnapping and robbing two other women around the same time that Smith was attacked. When his DNA was entered into the state's data bank--something Virginia law now requires of all felons--it matched a semen sample recovered from Smith and entered in the bank six years earlier. On the basis of the DNA match, Jimmerson was convicted of raping Smith and given two life sentences plus 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DNA: Putting Bad Guys Away Too | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Even if Congress moves to restrict the money flow, some experts say, the effect might not be what the reformers hope for. "Almost exactly the same amount would be spent but in different ways," predicts University of Virginia veteran campaign-finance watcher Larry Sabato. Companies, trade groups and unions would fund more grassroots organizing, phone banks, voter-registration drives and ads, among other things, he asserts. Assuming that ever creative political pros will always find--or make--a hole in the dike through which more money can pour, some argue that trying to limit contributions isn't the best approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dialing Back The Dollars | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...Richard Kelly Hoskins crafted an ideology that serves as a grim elixir of anti-Semitism and racism. While Butler is the center of the organization, Hoskins has provided a skein of quasi-scholarly justifications for the movement, covering history, economics and mythology. Hoskins, a former securities dealer living in Virginia, insisted in a statement last week that he does not advocate violence. Yet his book War Cycles/Peace Cycles, a copy of which was found in the van Furrow drove to Los Angeles last week, discusses the necessity of assassinating national leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kids Got In The Way | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...appointees answer the drug-use question for FBI background checks, George W. bit. "As I understand it, the current form asks the question, ?Did somebody use drugs within the last seven years?? and I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is no." Thursday morning in Virginia, back the goalposts went again. "Not only could I have passed in today's White House, I could have passed the standards applied under the most stringent conditions when my dad was president, a 15-year period." Bush Sr. signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush?s Game of Beat the Press Ends in Defeat | 8/19/1999 | See Source »

Heineken Beer 3.99 This cap is used and in good Bottle Cap condition. Virginia resident pays 4.5% sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Netwatch | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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