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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bitter day for this town if the world comes to an end," a lady in the grocery shop sighs during the Cuban missile crisis, and that about sums up the locals' world view. But it does not begin to suggest the complexity of the movie Neil Jordan has fashioned from Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Childhood Nightmares | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...like one hour of homework a night and personal advisors, are bestowed upon tour guides without their knowledge. In turn, these over-eager Harvard students share the only Harvard they know. Second, the same people who teach O.C.S.'s resume workshop write the tour script. Third, I'm just bitter over my financial aid package. Whatever the case, I suggest you take a tour and find...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, | Title: More Than Three Lies | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

Last year's April Fool's issue claimed that a Vincent Van Gogh painting housed in the Yale University Art Gallery was a forgery. And the year before, the Herald announced, in the midst of a bitter strike by Yale's dining services employees, that the McDonald's restaurant chain would take over the school's dining halls...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yale Herald Plays Early April Fool's Day Prank | 3/31/1998 | See Source »

...Four years ago, Renamo elected impressive numbers to the national assembly; now it has a stake in running the country, and hostilities find voice mainly as parliamentary debate. Frelimo jettisoned its socialist economic credo by 1989 and decided not only to adopt market-based capitalism but to take the bitter IMF-ordered medicine required for international investment...

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

...truly sad that Jim's last image is that of a man destroyed by manic depression and bitter resentment. His last years were not happy because he battled an illness and a betrayal of his own conscience. I pray that he has now found peace. As Jim would always say, "No sad songs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JIM MCDOUGAL | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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