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...love the law. I always will," he says, seated behind his desk and facing a window with a northward view that embraces many of the landscapes of his life. On a clear day he can see Winnetka, where his parents moved when he was a teenager; closer at hand is the north Chicago neighborhood where he was born. Somewhere in between is his present house, where he lives with his wife Annette and their three children: Rachel, 10, Gabriel, 7, and Eve, 3. "I do regard the law as a noble calling," he elaborates. "But I can't shake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burden of Success | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...hanging of a Confederate flag in the window of the Leverett Towers constitutes a legitimate--and insensitive--exercise of free speech. Accordingly, the Harvard community has a dual responsibilty; first, to affirm the right of the student to display the flag and second, to register enough thoughtful disapproval to persuade the person to remove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Campus Issues | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...interview, photographer David Burnett got Gorbachev, on the spur of the moment, to pose by the window. Late for his next meeting, the Soviet leader would not keep still. "He began to walk away after I had taken only four shots," Burnett says. But he was able to take several dozen pictures, including the one on the opening pages of our special section...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From the Publisher: Jun 4 1990 | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...aisles. Parking spaces marked with the blue-and-white symbol of a wheelchair are vigilantly guarded; anyone who illegally slips into one is subject to a $30 fine. Rather than rely on police to enforce the law, many disabled residents carry ticket forms that can be slapped onto the window of an offending car. Their eagerness to be tough on parking violators is a sign that the disabled do not intend to allow the unhandicapped to walk all over their rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Doors for the Disabled | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

...mistaken for Koreans, concluded that another monstrous outbreak of bigoted violence had occurred. It turned out that a black youth had fractured the skull of one Vietnamese with a hammer, but in a fight that started after a 13- year-old girl tossed a bottle through an apartment window. Immediately after the fracas, police hung a sign on the Vietnamese victim's apartment building: REWARD. THIS IS A BIAS ASSAULT CRIME SCENE. Wrote Daily News columnist Mike McAlary: "In this moment you can hang the sign on the entire city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broken Mosaic | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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