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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Events on Saturday began with an extremely courteous debate between Jim Sleeper, author of Liberal Racism, and John Mack, president of the Los Angeles Urban League and an IOP fellow. Mack and Sleeper debated whether the United States should pursue policies that aim to elect minority candidates to office...

Author: By Erica Westenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Explores Minority Representation | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Yesterday's hack into the Lampoon's Web site elicited more than a few chuckles from us at Dartboard. Though the prank itself was rather simple and benign, it was clever and good-natured, encouraging the hapless 'Poonsters to aim for some clever retaliation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DARTBOARD | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

...Bell's invention of the conventional telephone to wire up 1 billion customers worldwide. Current estimates by mobile operators suggest the same number of mobile subscribers could be online by the year 2005. Little wonder that traditional computer companies are scrambling to enter the mobile business. Bill Gates, whose aim has been to put a PC on every desk, told a symposium in February that "Microsoft's vision for PCs five years from now is a wireless device you can carry around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Flying Phones | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...also more overtly evangelistic than the atonement-oriented adult events. It overlaps another National Network project, Challenge 2000, the aim of which is "to help take the message of Christ to every school and every young person" within two years. Beacham has said that as See You spread, "we weren't even sure it was legal." It is. In 1990 the Supreme Court overwhelmingly sustained the constitutionality of a 1984 law permitting student prayer on school grounds if the prayer is not adult-led or during class hours. But the event still bothers some civil libertarians. Barry Lynn, head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: O, Say, Can You Pray? | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...with the well-known players like Baker Hughes and Schlumberger, where insiders have bought $1.6 million and $286,000 worth of stock since June. Or buy a good sector fund like AIM Global Resources or Fidelity Select Energy Services. And be patient. We won't see a big pop in these stocks until East Asia bottoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil-Patch Bargains | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

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