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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short, believing Hussein will live up to a compromise, or that he will not continue to be a regional and global menace in the future, is foolish. The best thing about this brush with war--if that is what the posturing and strategizing of the past few weeks turns out to be--may be the attention that has been refocused on the dangers posed by Baghdad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brokering With Iraq | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Agents of the FBI and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms armed themselves with semiautomatic rifles and bulletproof vests as they searched Rudolph's trailer and poked cautiously under neighbors' porches and in their barns. Helicopters clattered overhead, using infrared scanners that can detect body heat amid brush and darkness. And two bloodhounds named after TV detectives, Colombo and Quincy, were flown in from Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mountain Manhunt | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

...Stop, baby, stop." Here was one place where an "in turn," as it happened, referred to "a rock filled with clockwise rotation," as opposed to, not a special prosecutor, but an "out turn." Nearby was a whole museum of curling--well, a couple of display cases, containing a signed brush, a 19th century crampit, a polishing machine and all 10 issues of the now defunct Japanese magazine Happy Curling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hear Them Roar | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

Melia did do some studying to brush up on his knowledge of popular culture after being notified in December that the show had changed its format to stress the topic...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Question: Harvard Grad Wins $100K on Jeopardy! | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

...Madanian's estimation, the store's single best-selling item is the Mason and Pearson hairbrush. It's more expensive than the average CVS plastic model, but "it lasts for twenty years," Madanian says, indicating the finely-crafted brush in a box on the pharmacy counter. "Definitely a quality item," she adds...

Author: By Pam Wasserstein, | Title: Our Town | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

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