Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that Ventura is taking a time-out, and it's also a '90s irony: today's political culture craves authenticity but bristles when it actually gets some. But ride with the Guv in his Lincoln Navigator, and you find that even the chastened Ventura is more candid than 99% of pols. On the Cuban trade embargo he says what self-styled truth tellers like Bill Bradley don't: "It's stupid. Fidel's outlasted eight Presidents. Is it an ego thing? Do we have to wait for him to die?" He's the rare non-Democratic Governor who gives Clinton...
Recently, an organization for part-Asian students called HAPA (Half Asian Person's Association) was formed, providing a welcoming group where biracial students can discuss the unique issues they face. HAPA existed in the early '90s, but disintegrated after the founders graduated. Apparently, the administration felt no pressing need to keep the organization up and running. But thanks to Rebecca Weisinger '02, HAPA is once again a forum for biracial and multiracial students...
Yugoslavia found itself in a precarious, fragile situation entering the '90s. There were in large numbers throughout the country moderate citizens and politicians, Croat, Serb, and of other ethnicities, who hoped to see the country transform itself peacefully into a loosely knit confederation in which all citizens would play a part in governance...
...YANKEES After setting the record for most wins in 1998, the Yankees were in everyone's cross hairs. But they once again played as a team and once again made the competition look minor league, including the should-have-been team of the '90s, the Atlanta Braves...
They've been portrayed as the Rosenbergs of the '90s, and they're not happy about it. Sylvia and Wen Ho Lee, two Asian-born naturalized Americans, don't appreciate being branded as spies for communist China, and on Monday they filed a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., Circuit Court against the three federal agencies they say irresponsibly ruined their reputations. Wen Ho Lee, in jail pending trial on 59 charges that he compromised sensitive military documents while working at Los Alamos, was the subject of a very public investigation into whether he was the mole who gave China design secrets...