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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that one by again: The United States doesn't want to try a man suspected of a bomb attack that killed Americans - and they're sending him home?! Unless a federal court blocks his deportation, accused Saudi terrorist Hani al-Sayegh will be sent back to Riyadh Wednesday. The move comes after Sayegh, a Saudi dissident trained in Iran, stopped cooperating with an FBI probe into the 1996 attack on Khobar Towers in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, in which 19 U.S. military personnel were killed. Of course, going home could be more dangerous than staying in Washington. But the Justice Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curious Case of Hani al-Sayegh | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

...bomb," said Gwen Y. Shen '00, one of 16 finalists announced this weekend. Shen plans to postpone a wisdom tooth extraction until next week--just in case she wins. "I don't want to be celebrating with puffy cheeks," she said...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Seniors Elect 16 Class Marshal Finalists | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...make much difference when it comes to Einstein's science. But, like Zackheim, most people are slowly discovering that Einstein was not simply the secular saint they grew up with--the aureole-haired, sock-shunning professor who solved geometry problems for little girls, alerted F.D.R. to the German A-bomb peril and then wept over the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein's Lost Child | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...radical idea here is that people might still be passionate about principle, about government, about their jobs. When he's not indulging his you-can't-handle-the-truth side, Sorkin spins witty, hypercaffeinated office jabber with an intensity that's easier to buy from folks who have the Bomb than from sportscasters. That and an ensemble including ice-cool Rob Lowe and the deadpan, woebegone Richard Schiff make this freshman White House worth cutting slack for--for now. This is, after all, no cream-puff game like politics. It's TV, where honeymoons are even shorter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Capital Ideas | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Bust out of Cambridge and drop the H-bomb on blind date. LunchDates (Statler Building, Park Square, Downtown Boston; 254-3000) arranges for you to meet someone in a public restaurant without revealing your last name or telephone number. It's sorta like the witness relocation program for the criminally single...

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Social | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

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