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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...blocking group. And when my mother announced that she was getting married for a third time. And when my estranged father was killed. Her futon was another home to me and my sourcebooks. To divert ourselves from our problems, we would play "Sim City" on her computer--and destroy the cities with robots and aliens as we'd crack up with hysterical laughter...

Author: By Sarah A. Rodriguez, | Title: Lessons From Olivia | 5/12/1999 | See Source »

...gondola accident near Cavalese, Italy, in which a low-flying jet clipped the cable and killed 20 people. The pilot of the EA-6B Prowler, who was acquitted in March of manslaughter, was convicted by a military jury of obstruction of justice and conspiracy for helping destroy an in-flight videotape that might have shed light on the accident. That is the charge that stuck to Capt. Richard Ashby, says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, after the first court-martial revealed a series of mix-ups and deficiencies up and down the chain of command that may have contributed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marines Clear the Decks Over Gondola Accident | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...birthday. There were also annotated maps of the school showing the best places to hide and where and when the most students gathered. Again and again, hatred for the jocks emerged in the writings. Said Sheriff Stone: "They wanted to do as much damage as they could possibly do, destroy as many children as they could and go out in flames." The remains of their preparations were evident, he says: the barrel of a gun was clearly visible on the dresser of one suspect when investigators entered his room at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: ...In Sorrow And Disbelief | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...killers had in mind. In the school kitchen, in a duffel bag, they found the sinister parcel containing a propane tank, gasoline can and nails and BBs and glass that would have taken dozens of lives in the busy cafeteria. The killers, Sheriff John Stone said, "were going to destroy the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: ...In Sorrow And Disbelief | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Congratulations to NATO for standing up to a ruthless and evil dictator. Milosevic can be compared with Cambodia's Pol Pot. The Serbs have demonstrated yet again that they are capable only of fighting unarmed civilians. Failure to destroy the Serb war machine will surely destabilize the entire region, the consequences of which may be catastrophic. MICHAEL ALLEN Sutton in Ashfield, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 3, 1999 | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

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