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...could be pitched as anything but . . . depressing. There was no need to worry. This fourth, and presumably final, installment of the life and times of Harold C. Angstrom -- Rabbit Run (1960), Rabbit Redux (1971), Rabbit Is Rich (1981) -- is far more upbeat than its subject matter would seem to warrant. And in the bargain it manages to be both poignant and excruciatingly funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Peace | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

Apparently, the University, strapped for ready cash as it always is, decided that its main undergraduate library was not important enough to warrant the funds that could be better spent installing large rocks in front of the Science Center. Now the library will have to wait at least another two years before the computers arrive. Perhaps Lamont could better serve undergrads if FAS no longer considered it an undergraduate library...

Author: By John D. Staines, | Title: Lamenting Over Lamont | 10/13/1990 | See Source »

...inexcusable massacre. Even if the Arabs were throwing rocks, it shouldn't be a death warrant. It wouldn't be a reason to murder people in any country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reporter's Notebook | 10/13/1990 | See Source »

...inexcusable massacre," Coodavia said. "Even if the Arabs were throwing rocks, it shouldn't be a death warrant. It wouldn't be a reason to murder people in any country...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: Students Protest Israeli Killings | 10/11/1990 | See Source »

...that prerogative. In New York, Connecticut, North Carolina and New Jersey, for example, the highest courts have refused to follow the U.S. Supreme Court in allowing prosecutors to use illegally seized evidence. The high court ruled in 1984 that such evidence was admissible so long as police obtained a warrant and were acting in "good faith." In California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, state supreme court judges have decided that their constitutions demand public financing of abortions for poor women, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has found no reason under the U.S. Constitution to require such spending. Oregon and Hawaii...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: One Nation, Very Divisible | 10/8/1990 | See Source »

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