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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...once grew distracted from politics, and grieved deeply for his daughter. O’Brien quotes from a letter written to his mother, Abigail Adams, in which he describes the child’s sufferings as so severe that “the sight of them would have wrung with compassion a heart of marble...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: O’Brien’s ‘Mrs. Adams’ Envisions A Nuanced Past | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

...role religion played in the campaign for Prop 8. The defense called just two witnesses, who attempted to show that marriage is fundamental to human society and that it has nearly always been limited to one man and one woman. Boies, who led an often blistering cross-examination, wrung concessions from those witnesses that thrilled gay-marriage supporters, including a statement that allowing gay marriage would help the children already being raised by gay couples who are not allowed to be married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Marriage Trial Rests, and a Key Ruling Awaits | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

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