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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the pages. Yet still you remain transfixed. You read without a sense of yourself--aware only of the feel of paper and the putrid smell of filth and excrement clinging to the words. Occasionally the pages, white and luminous, drag you so deep inside their parameters that for brief moments, you literally imagine you are one of the victims, one of the inhuman, one of the blind. A cold fear clings to each word. You look up startled from the book and thank God that world isn't real. You tell yourself again and again...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Among the Blind, Chaos is King | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

This may very well be true, but at least they're not two lonely Harvard pseudo-journalists trying to get a cheap thrill out of impersonating said self-loathing, desperate individuals and then trying to justify their behavior with a brief round of dim-witted self-righteousness. BRIAN C. GATTEN...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cheap Thrill in Bad Taste | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

...Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, whose state funds public pre-kindergarten in 136 districts. Standards vary from state to state. Georgia's pre-kindergarten curriculum includes language, literacy and math concepts. At Brooklyn's P.S. 200, a go-at-your- own-pace approach seems to apply. After a brief lesson, pint-size pupils roam among a playhouse, a game corner, an art center and a library. Says principal Neal Opromalla: "These children learn through play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preschool for Everyone | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

Fineberg took a brief trip to China about ayear ago and has been planning this trip for overa year...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fineberg Schedules Holiday Trip to Asia | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

...BRIEF FOR MILITARY SPENDING...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 2, 1998 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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