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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from an irrational person. Assuming a dictator will act in the best interest of his nation's people is an error of judgment the West keeps making. Milosevic, like Ho Chi Minh, sees the struggles of his countrymen only as the means to achieve an ethnically pure nation. The bait has been taken: NATO and the U.S. are headed down the slippery slope of ever increasing commitment in Yugoslavia. CHARLES GARNER Greensboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1999 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...Margaret Carlson! Your piece on Monica was right on. No doubt the "big fish" took the bait on the line. In this fishing trip, the lure being offered was thong underwear. LISA HOWARD Perkasie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 8, 1999 | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...Jordan thing--two years ago, when I was a sophomore and he was a freshman, the Penn newspaper called me up, and they were trying to get this whole Jordan-Hill thing started up," Hill says. "But I didn't take the bait. I didn't give them too much to write about...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Best Ever? | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...political destruction. Buoyed by their odd conception of victory, they are launching Operation Perpetual Impeachment, targeting outspoken presidential critics for political extinction in 2000. For Republicans the temptation to do battle with them--for retribution, validation, vindication--will be enormous. But the G.O.P. needs to resist taking this bait and return to fighting over big issues, not small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I'd Whip the Democrats | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...Dartboard will dangle some bait...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DARTBOARD | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

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