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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pilot Gamil el-Batouti. Besides having to deal with the loss of a husband and father, the family had to cope with the anguish of a name destroyed by unproved accusations of mass murder and suicide. The ideal situation would have been to avoid reaching any conclusions before a thorough investigation of the crash had been completed. But the situation being what it was, your article did a good job of relating the different sides of the story in a fair, impartial manner. FAROOQ JAVED St. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 20, 1999 | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...fascination your feature articles on the various Undergraduate Council presidential candidates, and I was taken aback by what seems a most noticeable difference in the quality of reportage devoted to the different campaigns. It is clear that, while the teams writing about Darling-Patel and Plants-Wikler were quite thorough in their investigations, the articles devoted to the other two-person teams were sorely lacking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/15/1999 | See Source »

...sense. The candidate first receives a "conditional offer" of employment which, ironically, is the easy part. According to a personnel officer, he or she is then subjected to an elaborate security clearance process that can take between three months and several "years." Beginning with a polygraph test and a thorough medical and psychiatric examination, the CIA invests a whole lot of resources into investigating the recruits...

Author: By Steve W. Chung, | Title: CIA Policies Discourage Top Recruits | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...Messenger would have benefited from thorough editing. It is littered with clunky metaphors and minor errors, such as Evanzz's assertion that Martin Luther King Jr. was killed with a shotgun, not a high-powered rifle, that undermine its credibility. Those seeking a definitive biography of the Muslim leader should turn to Claude Andrew Clegg III's 1997 study, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad, which covers most of the same ground but in a scholarly and far more convincing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Unlikely Prophet | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...caller reported that a man carrying what looked to be a gun was walking near Boylston Hall. A thorough search of the area turned up nothing...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Police Log | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

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