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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face that rarely smiles. He is 22 now, still undersize and boyish, but he was just 13 when rebel Renamo soldiers crept into the hamlet of Taninga before dawn in 1988 to steal food and took him too. They threatened to execute him, armed him with an AK-47 assault rifle and turned him into a pitiless killing machine aimed at his family, friends and neighbors on the government side of Mozambique's civil war. "They told me I must fight in order to eat," he stutters, loath to recall those years. "I killed people. I saw their faces when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa Rising | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...seemed that Feaster was breaking records more often than she was playing games. The assault on the record books began on Nov. 29 against Mt. St. Mary's when, with two free throws, she became Harvard's all-time scoring leader...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Remembering a Historic Season | 3/20/1998 | See Source »

...resident of 44 Thorndike Street was arrested at the Harvard Square Kiosk for assault with a dangerous weapon...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 3/18/1998 | See Source »

When some panelists lamented the lack of black leadership support, Cooper recommended a full-scale assault on the issue...

Author: By Caille M. Millner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Panel Explores AIDS in Black Community | 3/17/1998 | See Source »

...judgment of the kind not seen since the Lewinsky crisis began, and its tracks were marked by those two well-worn words: If true. ?If the evidence is true... I think this presidency will be over,? said Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). ?If it?s true, it?s sexual assault,? said Patricia Ireland, president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kathleen Willey: Ugly Charges With a Troubling History | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

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