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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week: Jun. 22, 1992 | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

During his childhood, Clinton was torn by contending emotions toward his stepfather. He had urged his mother not to reunite with him. "I didn't think he would straighten up, even though I loved him." Both mother and son remember one traumatic confrontation when a 14-year-old Clinton broke in the door to threaten his father. Both, until their memories were recently jogged, thought this ended the physical threats. Now they admit that could not have been the case. Why does Clinton remember the break-in episode and not later ones, which he described in his deposition? "That ((break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Forgotten Childhood | 6/8/1992 | See Source »

...Most people find it's much more straight herethan it was in their home town," says Fred. "Intheir town they were in the crowd that did it alot... most people come here and straighten...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Student Drug Users Spurn Cambridge | 4/21/1992 | See Source »

Both offices have tried to deal with the larger problems, and the result has been a sort of competition for University resources and prestige. "They need to straighten up the whole issue of who deals with what," Reid told us last fall. Exactly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Inaccurate and Offensive | 4/15/1992 | See Source »

...interest of both those straight people who, prior to arriving at Harvard, have never before been asked to evaluate their views on homosexuality, and in defense of those who are trying to understand their own sexuality, we seek in this letter to "straighten" some of Peninsula's facts and to repudiate their most dangerous unwarranted assumptions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Straightening' Out Peninsula's Facts | 11/19/1991 | See Source »

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