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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the panel was meant to help students understand the sometimes confusing policy, only about 20 students showed...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Administrators Stress Safety at Alcohol Panel | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...essential to understand the reasons the Russians have adopted this strategy. In order to maintain popularity, they must minimize Russian troop casualties. It is easy to condemn this strategy and its real and atrocious human cost, but it is not unlike American justification for the use of the atomic bomb on Japanese cities during WWII. Moreover, as in all wars with guerrilla fighters, it is often hard to tell Chechen rebels from ordinary villagers...

Author: By Charles C. De simone, | Title: Chechen Conundrum | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...before the article was released, the office sent out a press release: "License to Kill: Development of Killer T Cells Observable." It explains how this discovery could help doctors understand how HIV and cancer attack the immune system...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Getting the Word Out | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

That request left Mann "beyond not interested." To get out of her contract, she had to buy back her own master tapes. "I had had it," she explains. "Now I understand what Prince went though. I was ready to cheerfully quit the business forever." Fortunately, this is when Paul Thomas Anderson stepped in. While writing the script for Magnolia, Anderson heard a tape of some of Mann's new songs and liked them so much he began building characters around them. Claudia, the lonely cokehead played by Melora Walters, was inspired by the song Deathly. "Everything [Aimee] seemed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Sweet Sound of Magnolia | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

...called my brother-in-arms, Jose Bove, the French farm leader who has taken crowbars to McDonald's in his homeland. I caught him on his cell phone while he walked the turbulent streets of downtown Seattle. It took him a while to understand the importance of my findings. But eventually he caught on. "McDonald's had a good way to make publicity, and people like that," he said. And then, after some mushy watermelon sounds in the background, he added, "I have a problem with police. Can you call me back here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Did Somebody Say McLiar? | 12/13/1999 | See Source »

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