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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...although the justices have varying beliefs and political stances, Breyer insisted that the process was very cordial and professional...

Author: By Heather B. Long, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Justice Breyer Gives Insider's View of Supreme Court | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Aimless after his resignation, he decides to visit his daughter Lucy. She lives by herself on an isolated smallholding in the Eastern Cape that she shares with a black farmer, Petrus, in a farmhouse that previously housed a hippie commune to which she belonged. David and Lucys relationship is cordial but distant, and her choice to live off the land seems to be a calculated rejection of his intellectual, urban life. Her decision is informed by a refusal to live her life according to abstract ideas...

Author: By Cerdiwen Dovey, | Title: Booker Winner Visits the Smallholdings | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

...GETS A NEW REP Remember how the CIA used to be a covert operation? Well, the spooks are a lot more cordial than in the cold war days. Not only does the CIA website have games for kids, but the agency's also getting into e-tail--a 1996 map of Iraq costs $7. Last month Langley played host to its first-ever gala premiere, for the TV movie In the Company of Spies, where CIA head George Tenet rubbed shoulders with actor Tom Berenger (center, with his wife). Next month the agency's new venture-capital firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dulles Out | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...spite of the factions' struggle for control over the department, relations between government faculty remain cordial, insiders say, and the conflict has not become personal...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Government Department Scrutinized for Faculty Rift | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...seduces the viewer as effortlessly as he did his screen partners. The actor, who died in 1996 at 72, recalls his career with eloquence, irony and a gentle wonder. To hear him utter, with a child's reverence, the names Gary Cooper and Clark Gable is to hear a cordial peal of thunder from one Olympic peak to another. "I like people; I love life," he says. "Perhaps that is why life has loved me in return." At three hours-plus, this is the Shoah of movie-star chats. But it is worth every second if the viewer brings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember, Yes, I Remember | 8/30/1999 | See Source »

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