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Weekly Review

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel announced plans to evacuate 17 Jewish settlements from the Gaza Strip. “I am working on the assumption that in the future there will be…

An American cattleman. In response to the mad-cow crisis, the United States Department of Agriculture banned the human consumption of cow brains, skulls, spinal cords, vertebral columns, eyes, and nerve…

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

A bovine idyll. Mad cow disease was discovered in the United States for the first time, in a Holstein cow that was too sick to walk but was nonetheless slaughtered…

The executioner’s song and dance

by Harper’s Staff,

Weekly Review

by Roger D. Hodge,

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to withhold $244 million in United Nations dues if American did not regain its seat on the Human Rights Commission. “This is an affront,”…

Let the Gifts Begin

by Harper’s Staff,

From internal notes and memoranda describing International Olympic Committee (IOC) members, written by organizers of Atlanta’s bid to host the 1996 Summer Olympics. The documents were released in September by…

Staging bull

by Harper’s Staff,

Readings

by Victor Balaban,

Readings

by Michael Ackerman,

A Lawyer Without Precedent

by Harper’s Staff,

From the transcript of a habeas corpus hearing held in January 1996 at the Butts County Superior Court in Jackson, Georgia, to determine whether Wallace Fugate was given “effective assistance…

Campaign spending

by Andy Kober,

An unwritten rule

Georgia

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Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

The executioner’s song and dance

Weekly Review

Let the Gifts Begin

Staging bull

Readings

Readings

A Lawyer Without Precedent

Campaign spending

June 1997

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