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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's remarkable is how many people, upon closer examination, turn out to have gone much further, fabricating stories to include wars they did not fight, degrees they did not acquire, events that did not happen, even defining moments they did not have. Last Thursday the body of former U.S. Ambassador M. Larry Lawrence was dug up from Arlington National Cemetery after no one could come up with proof that he had actually been in the merchant marine. Lawrence had given himself a war record so moving that his voice cracked when he told about being thrown into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIES MY AMBASSADOR TOLD ME | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...referred to himself as "half Marxist, half Buddhist," and has stepped back from his original demands of independence to calling only for an autonomous "Zone of Peace"). The pressure on him to forswear his policy of nonviolence has intensified as the years go by, and Chinese repression comes ever closer to rendering Tibet extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOD IN EXILE | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

When Payanzo was looking for an apartment, she ran into the problem Dingman describes. She found a two-bed- room apartment in Union Square in Somerville that cost only $650 a month but chose to live in a smaller apartment that was closer to the Yard...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Harvard Assists Student Mothers | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Blondie was transferred to the 39th District in 1984. at its north end, the 39th is home to Philadelphia's elite. Large, expensive houses with well-manicured lawns are owned by business tycoons and politicians. But closer to downtown is an area of about 1 sq. mi. that is still home to the predatory crime common in America's inner cities. "It's the kind of place where if you saw a big TV satellite dish, you knew something was wrong because just about everyone there was on welfare," says the sergeant known as Schoolboy, who was Blondie's nominal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

Moving in with Yazzie and awaiting Dylan's birth, Payanzo and Yazzie grew closer than they had ever been before...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis and Lori I. Diamond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Student Moms Juggle Schoolwork, Parenting | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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