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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many ways, I now hold my mama at emotional gun point. There is no way she can stop me from doing those things that make the neighbors talk; to avoid losing a daughter, she struggles to understand me. My mama is a brave and generous woman. To know it, you'd have to be trying difficult and unappreciative for 20 years--you'd have...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, | Title: POSTCARD FROM SINGAPORE | 7/2/1998 | See Source »

...Pentagon by storm/ in halter dress and rhinestone extras," Garrison writes in "An Idle Thought." (It could be retitled "Oh, How I Would Have Put You to Shame, Monica Lewinsky.") Garrison's efforts won her a book blurb from feminist columnist Katha Pollitt, who described the poems as "brave, elegant, edgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feminism: It's All About Me! | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...thing is certain: these were brave soldiers on a tough mission. They deserve, as do our readers, a full and fair examination of the charges and countercharges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nerve Gas Story | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

Simon & Schuster senior editor Bob Bender is a brave man. Unconcerned with the author's reputation, Bender's company is rejecting a book proposal from convicted Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski, according to the New York Daily News. The four-page handwritten proposal, in which Kaczynski claims his lawyers misrepresented him during his trial, arrived earlier this month. The last time Kaczynski sent out a book proposal -- for his turgid 35,000-word tract "Industrial Society and Its Future" -- he made it clear that there'd be more than checks in the mail if it wasn't published. Then again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kaczynski Gets a Rejection Letter | 6/24/1998 | See Source »

...brave the stacks of the Collegelibraries, go for it. The books there are free forthe taking--er--borrowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHOP `TILL YOU DROP | 6/19/1998 | See Source »

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