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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Precisely. In Germany, once the most militaristic society on earth, you can now get a perfect cappuccino on every block. And Germans have become as aggressive as Caspar Milquetoast. The Russians? Moscow has turned into latte land, and so the remnants of the Red Army cannot even overwhelm a bunch of bedraggled Chechens. Why does Israel, a modern-day democratic Sparta, talk withdrawal from Lebanon? Just count the espresso machines on Tel Aviv's Shenkin Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latte Lightweights | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Rosen went to Washington to work on the staff of then-Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger '38, who is also a Crimson editor...

Author: By David S. Stolzar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the Right: As an Undergrad, Rosen Protested the Protestors | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

...NAME SPEAKERS INCLUDE...] Richard Allen, Bill Buckley, Alexander Haig, Edwin Meese, Sam Nunn, Caspar Weinberger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Water Everywhere--and Plenty to Drink | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...company Bechtel built is not universally loved. One partner in the wartime shipyards was John McCone, a steel executive who later became CIA director. He came early in a long line of men who filled high offices alternately in Bechtel and the Federal Government (most notable: George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger). That led to charges of undue influence--by whom on whom was never quite clear. The company's penchant for secrecy didn't help its reputation either. In 1976 the Justice Department charged that Bechtel had gone too far to please Arab clients by blacklisting potential subcontractors who dealt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stephen Bechtel: Global Builder | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Harrison expressed his gratitude to Harvard, the Society of Fellows and Donald L. D. Caspar--former lecturer at Harvard Medical School and research associate in pathology at Children's Hospital Medical Center--at having been given a chance long ago to pursue his innocent search for difficult answers...

Author: By Kevin S. Schwartz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Professor Receives $50,000 Prize for Seminal Research | 11/18/1997 | See Source »

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