Opinion

The 1996 Elections

Many Close Calls, But Few Surprises. By Stuart Rothenberg. Looking back over the past few days, and comparing them with the past few months, the 1996 elections ...
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Prosecutor’s review finds new suspects in 1996 double killing and no ties to man tried 5 times

For 16 years, a suburban New York prosecutor’s office insisted it had the right man in a notorious 1996 double killing. The office tried him five times, through a series of hung juries and reversed ...
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Ross Perot

February 20: On CNN's "Larry King Live," Perot says he would run for president if supporters can get his name on all 50 state ballots. March 18: Speaks at the National Press Club and says he will run ...
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Pennsylvania Voters Depict New Reality

Over the years, few states have better reflected the nation's body politic than Pennsylvania. It has voted with the winner in 11 of the last 12 presidential elections, and this year backed President ...
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Will The Center Hold For Clinton?

WASHINGTON (Jan. 13) -- During the first two years of his presidency, Bill Clinton governed more or less like a liberal. He proposed allowing gays in the military, backed a "stimulus package" that was ...
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Desperately Seeking Lori

(TIME, October 14) -- Swing voters hold a nation's secrets. Sometimes they are important because of what they tell us about an election. But when the race isn't even close, they are important because ...
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Phil Gramm

Maybe he just can't help himself. Phil Gramm, the Robespierre of the Republican right and a man with a startlingly real shot at the presidency, just can't seem to avoid making people mad. That ...
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Las Vegas police serve search warrant in connection with Tupac Shakur murder investigation

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police confirmed to CNN on Tuesday that it executed a search warrant at a location in Henderson, Nevada in connection with the ongoing investigation into the murder of ...
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East Timor democracy leaders named Nobel Peace Prize winners

(CNN) -- A Roman Catholic bishop and an exiled pro-democracy activist won the Nobel Peace Prize October 11 for their efforts to bring a peaceful end to the conflict in East Timor, a former Portuguese ...
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Jonathan David Karl

Jonathan David Karl is a special CNN political correspondent, specializing in covering Generation X during Campaign USA '96. He joined CNN in 1996. Karl previously worked as an investigative reporter ...
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The 1996 Nobel Prizes

What was striking about the 1996 Nobel laureates was the diversity of their achievements: advances in medicine that are already saving lives, groundbreaking discoveries of new molecules and phenomena ...