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I was disappointed by your article on Oregon's Measure 58, which would give adoptees the right to see their birth certificate when they turn 21 [LAW, Feb. 22]. It was full of inaccuracies and wrongheaded assumptions. Measure 58 isn't about "tracking down" anybody. Most adoptees who wish to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 15, 1999 | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

That dynamic explained why, for all the professions of decorum, Republicans were playing for keeps and Democrats were trying to make it all a fairness issue. It was hard to square Gingrich's talk about sober bipartisanship with the impeachment war room set up by Republican whip Tom Delay, who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We, The Jury | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

How do you "protect" kids from objectionable content online? That's the issue that refuses to die--especially in Congress, where yet more wrongheaded legislation that would force libraries and schools to put costly (and ineffectual) software "filters" on Internet-connected computers is afoot.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Censorware | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

In the art of diplomacy, the well-timed gesture can make all the difference. During presummit haggling, National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER warned his Chinese counterpart, Liu Hua Qui, that the ballooning trade deficit with China, $44 billion this year, was going to provoke a mega-political backlash. Liu replied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE TALKS: CAN DIPLOMAT BARBIE BE FAR BEHIND? | 11/10/1997 | See Source »

Whenever Florida Republican Joe Scarborough encountered House Speaker Newt Gingrich this winter, he found himself thinking of Richard Nixon as rendered by Oliver Stone. In one scene a vehement Pat Nixon goes over to Dick and grabs him by the lapels. "Dick, you want them to love you, but they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWT IN THE CROSSHAIRS | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

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