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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bond (Pierce Brosnan) faces Russian terrorists bent on destroying Istanbul with hijacked plutonium so that they can wipe out three oil pipelines. This would allow for a fourth pipeline, running from Russia to the West, that would bear all of the oil, turning a tidy profit and endangering the United States' oil supply. In the end--sorry to ruin it--Bond kills the bad guys and sleeps with the heroine...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Always an Icon, A Bond in the '90s | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

After graduating only three seniors last year, the Crimson welcome...

Author: By Elizabeth M. Lewis and Timothy M. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Men's, Women's Swimming Looking to Make a Splash | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

Last confession: I'm as eager to pretend understanding of a hot fad as any journalist. And I do like things kids like; this summer I read all three Harry Potter books, aloud and enthralled, to my wife. So I'm no grinch. Honest. I'm just a guy who loves good cartoons and, when he sees a bad one, gets a little...bit ...UPSET...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Who Just Didn't Get It | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...COMMERCE WATCHDOG Here's further proof that online shopping isn't all it's cracked up to be: of over three dozen newly rated websites listed on Consumer Reports Online at CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG, only Amazon.com wins top honors for "a very satisfying shopping experience." Rated by the five-point system used in the print magazine, the site evaluates e-merchants based on content, usability and policies. Lillian Vernon's catalog site is labeled "inconvenient" and "tedious," while the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut site gets dinged for its "poorly cross-referenced search engine." Just so-so sites include Victoria's Secret, Frederick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 22, 1999 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...today as there were in the months prior to the NATO campaign, but now Serbs are the main victims. Kosovo Albanians are purging the province of Serbian culture: license plates are being blacked out, accents dropped, and street signs lengthened to show Albanian pronunciation. A U.N. worker was shot three hours after arriving in Pristina last month for speaking Serbian. How should Clinton pronounce the name of the place? He has already shown a Clintonian flexibility. In speeches prior to the NATO bombing he used the Serbian "Ko-sovo." During the war, he switched to the Albanian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: You Say Kosovo, I Say Kosova; Let's Fight | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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