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Stern said a trial date is expected to be set in March 1997, but Kaplan said such cases are frequently delayed for years...
...unclear yesterday why the court chose February 1996 as a cutoff date...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: In a major ruling, the Supreme Court struck down a Colorado constitutional amendment that bans laws protecting homosexuals from discrimination. The 6-3 ruling Monday is the biggest legal victory to date for gay-rights activists, and signals a major shift by the court since its last major gay-rights ruling. In 1986, the Court was blatantly contemptuous of a constitutional challenge to Georgia's sodomy law. "This is a huge decision," TIME correspondent Wendy Cole reports, adding that gay-rights groups had been braced for a defeat. "It will be very interesting to see how local municipalities...
...last telephone conversation between Bob Dole and Colin Powell had all the romance of a bad blind date. Ending months of silence between the men, Powell telephoned to congratulate the Kansas Senator in early April after Dole clinched the G.O.P. nomination. By careful arrangement, Dole had been warned to simply say thanks and under no circumstances mention the vice presidency. Dole obeyed the ground rules but asked the retired general, "Can I call you for advice on foreign policy now and then?" Sure, said Powell, anytime. And then he hung up. The whole thing lasted less than a minute...
...lead of 3DO and began replacing the aging 16-bit game machines with 32-bit systems built around cd-rom drives, Nintendo charted its own course. Howard Lincoln, chairman of Nintendo of America, was convinced that his core audience--twitchy-fingered boys between eight years old and their first date--would be underwhelmed by the quality of games that can be delivered on cd-roms, silvery storage platters that have enormous capacity but are notoriously sluggish. Lincoln decided that his best chance to deliver game play so startling that his target market would feel they just had to have...