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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filing on occasion for the Times almost like an intern in the Tokyo bureau," she said. "Then they took me on in a reporter in trainee position, and then I got hired on a trial basis...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alum Will Edit N.Y. Times Section | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...read these reports and warnings, and almost canceled a trip I had planned to Cornwall last weekend. I was going for the beaches, cliffs and seaside towns, a break from the dirty city air. The reports made me think I would have to stand during the six hour train ride, push through crowds on tiny streets and fight for a spot on the sand. But I was fixated on Cornwall, and left for the coast with one of my friends...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: A Missed Moment for Many | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

This movie is quite bad. Example: the house grows eyes and almost eats the main character. The Haunting, starring Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta-Jones, had few entertaining surprises (I admit it; I screamed once), but for the most part the characters are under- developed and there simply is no atmosphere. Along with the rest of the audience, I mistakenly laughed when I was to be instead seized by terror...

Author: By Lauren M. Hult, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Bad Movies are Haunting Liam | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...mental-hostpital check-in desk; he was on probation because he hadn?t hurt anybody before. And the First Amendment says that even Neo-Nazis must be deemed harmless until they prove us wrong. This being frontier-hewn America, which because it cannot forswear all its guns forswears almost none of them, a Buford Furrow is bound to happen, and will happen again. This time, everybody survived but a substitute mailman, who had an absent colleague?s route that day. "He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time," USPS spokesman David Mazer said. So was Buford Furrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sadly, There'll Always Be Another Buford Furrow | 8/12/1999 | See Source »

...rushed to the rescue of their Russian comrades in the village of Dobrcane, firing over the heads of a crowd of ethnic-Albanians pelting the Russians with rocks. It was one of three clashes overnight between peacekeepers and supporters of the Kosovo Liberation Army, incidents which have become an almost daily occurrence as returning refugees seek vengeance on the province?s remaining Serbs and Russian peacekeepers, and the KLA presses its claim for political power and independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo's Crazy Quilt in Danger of Getting Crazier | 8/12/1999 | See Source »

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