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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much to the staff's chagrin, final clubs won't wither away any time soon. The staff's position in just a manifestation of the sour grapes gnashing between the bitter teeth of those who aren't invited to the clubs...

Author: By David W. Brown, | Title: Staff's Sour Grapes | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...these allegations. During most of this time Yeltsin--now largely reduced to symbolic 60-sec. taped appearances on the evening news--sat quietly by, occasionally expressing incongruously mild disapproval. All this came to an end in the middle of last week. Interior Minister Anatoli Kulikov, Lebed's open and bitter enemy, declared that Lebed was planning a coup, that he wanted to place most of the country's intelligence and military machine under his control and had proposed the creation of a 50,000-strong Russian Legion--ostensibly to fight crime, but in fact, Kulikov said, to be used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: WHY LEBED GOT BOOTED | 10/28/1996 | See Source »

...Press Club on Thursday, Perot called Dole's overture "weird and totally inconsequential" and said he was in the race to stay. Perot said he would not discuss details of his Wednesday meeting with Dole campaign manager Scott Reed. But he said, "Do I intend to campaign to the bitter end? Yes." Perot running mate Pat Choate said Dole's request proved he was not a viable candidate and urged Republicans to support the Reform Party ticket. "When he knows he can't win, he asks us to bow out of the race," Choate said. Dole's dramatic overture, less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perot Vows To Fight To The End | 10/26/1996 | See Source »

...whose candle was snuffed out, and was buried in the dust, a bitter cry won't wake him, won't bring him back," Rabin sang over the television monitor in a video clip from the peace rally in Tel Aviv last November which ended with his assassination...

Author: By Jessie M. Amberg, | Title: A Year After Death, Rabin Is Remembered | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

...socked feet, Michael (David Egan) likes to imagine himself lecturing at Carnegie Hall on the sex lives of superheroes. Eleanor (Abigail Gray) likes to rewrite love stories into tragedies--"Or, if they're already tragic but in a really noble way, I rewrite 'em so they're squalid and bitter." What's keeping this perfect pair apart? Only Michael's obsession with his heartless ex-girlfriend, Lisa (Erica Mitnick), who haunts his Carnegie Hall fantasies, asking steamy questions like, "Who was the first comic book character to have interdimensional sex?" In real life, she's been paying him weekly visits...

Author: By Cicely V. Wedgeworth, | Title: Super Heroes, Super Sex | 10/24/1996 | See Source »

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