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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes even democracy needs a little wake-up call. Beyond the varied issues that got them out on the streets - and the violent methods favored by a minority among them - the demonstrators who battled police for control of downtown Seattle over the past few days issued a profound challenge to politics as usual in the Clinton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle in Seattle: A Challenge to Politics as Usual | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...difficult to feel emotionally involved in the film's later, tragic scenes. There's an interesting subtext in the novel regarding the oft-blurred line between physical and emotional love, but the film just zeroes in on the copulation and leaves the rest to the imagination. Call me reactionary, but it seems a little backward...

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Coldness Overwhelms Romance, Strong Acting in Affair | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Further, to call Bonfire an "excessive, unnecessary waste of natural resources" is far from correct as well. Alumni or citizens of College Station usually give up part of their land that they want to be deforested, and so these trees would have been cleared anyway. As for the burning of a 55 foot high stack of logs, the ecological damage is a tiny fraction of the damage done in a few hours by the refineries and chemical companies along the South coast of Texas, and I do not think we should get rid of those either...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...Bodyworks also offers massage sessions. It is located at 329 Broadway in Cambridge. To sign up for a class, call...

Author: By Eugenia V. Levenson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tai Chi's Graceful Motions Help Students Relax | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...course, it makes sense - loneliness is the enemy for most here, and this place can be hard on what they call the "mental housing," especially for the de-feminized females whose boyfriends have stopped writing. But for those far beyond high school - and thus for the most part far beyond needing clamor to keep one's mind off this place's occasional rigors - it's the clamor that threatens to corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Private Is the Last Thing You Can Be | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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