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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's probably not going to be bigdemonstrations in the next two years or highlypublicized negotiating fights, but there are bigquestions we're trying to make progress on," hesays.A Brief History of OvertimeMatthew R. Daniels

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: On Its 10th Anniversary, HUCTW Is Happy With Harvard | 6/3/1998 | See Source »

...After a brief stint teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, Kristol returned to Boston in 1983 to teach at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He says he was the school's "token conservative...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weekly Standard Editor Always Stood Out as a Conservative | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

They're sworn to protect the President; now Janet Reno is set to step into the ring to protect them from testifying. The Secret Service got a boost late Monday when the Justice Department filed a brief notice of intent to appeal last month's ruling from Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, which compelled Secret Service agents to testify in Ken Starr's Lewinsky probe. While that doesn't guarantee a DOJ appeal, it does leave the door open for Reno to challenge her own independent counsel in the courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Janet Reno's Secret Service | 6/2/1998 | See Source »

Even as the students who had wrought the revolution were peacefully but firmly cleared from the Parliament building in the early hours of Saturday morning, few Indonesians thought Habibie would be more than a brief tenant of the presidential office. "I don't see Habibie enjoying meaningful political support from anyone," said Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, a former Minister of Environment. "In the economic crisis we lost trust. We have to regain trust, and Habibie is not the man for that." Indonesia's transition out of the Suharto era into a modern, free-market democracy has, with his departure, just barely begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is B.J. Habibie? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...from Moby Dick. If you're like a lot of folks, Bill Gates' best seller caught your fancy years ago, but at 30 to 40 times earnings, the price always seemed high. So you waited, and still wait. The stock has had its dips. But they've been brief, and often came with nagging questions: Was its famous growth curve flattening? Was it too slow to the Internet? Would the feds destroy its edge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buy On Bad News | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

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