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...unfortunate trend appears to be sweeping the United States of America these days: a complete disregard for civil liberties. Whether it's this summer's anti-terrorism bill, or the Justice Department's pursuit of increased phone-tapping capabilities, the rights of Americans are being thrown right out the window...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ad Board Should Not Try To Limit Freedom of the Press | 10/30/1996 | See Source »

Around the same time, Adiele remembers a different incident when a black man was thrown under the subway by frequenters of the area bars and killed...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Students Question Services' Impact | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...provides them. Danson and Steenburgen are now a couple who have been divorced for 10 years (with a 15-year-old daughter) but are thrown back together when she is hired as the managing editor of the paper where he's a star columnist. "Have you seen the buses?" he boasts to his ex-wife. "I'm on the M4, the M10--and the 6. That's crosstown, baby." She's a high-strung but determined professional woman trying to give up smoking; he pesters their daughter to find out whom her mom is dating. Next headline: ROMANTIC TENSION BREWING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: INK-A-DINK-A-REDO | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

After decades of overuse, the images that politicians and journalists alike have employed to connect politics to the populace are now utterly exhausted. After every debate, on every televised hair-pulling contest, you hear them--drawn from a handful of sports, with the occasional gambling metaphor thrown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VOTE FOR NEW METAPHORS! | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...more appropriate name for the band would be Beckphish. But that would detract from the fact that this is a genuinely original band that plays better live than on tape. The almost two hour set included all the songs off their touted debut, Irresistible Bliss and a few knucklers thrown in by lead singer M. Doughty...

Author: By Khoa Le, | Title: If You're White Bread And You Know It, Cough! | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

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