On the one hand, the calls for "closure," "finality" and national unity. On the other, Justice John Paul Stevens' bitter summation: "in the interests of finality, however, the majority (of the U.S. Supreme Court) effectively orders the...
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11 May 2000
After the "Love Bug" virus struck millions of computer hard drives, many news outlets attributed the magnitude of the damage to overwhelming reliance on the same type of software. Suddenly, in the digital world, steep downsides of...
11 May 2000
AUSTIN -- Government's not so bad when it's just deciding on those
special-interest fights -- some titanic clash for turf between doctors and
chiropractors or AT&T vs. Southwestern Bell. True, the side that makes the
biggest political...
10 May 2000
Now, it's Al Gore, crime fighter, outlining his plans in a recent speech in
Atlanta. The reportedly erstwhile dope smoker from Tennessee fears that the
Texan who's so coy about his past relationship with cocaine has the edge on
the crime...
09 May 2000
AUSTIN -- Now that we've recovered from Janet Reno's assault on the Branch
Floridians, let's see if we can't get just a bit of attention for some
outrageous cases of robbery. As usual, our friends with the white collars
and the quick...
04 May 2000
AUSTIN -- To say that my knowledge of Chinese trade issues is inadequate is
a wild understatement -- it's not a hot topic in Nacogdoches. But at least I
approach the subject with appropriate humbleness, instead of the damn-fool
certainty...
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