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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the Russians on board, Albright spent the next two weeks keeping half a dozen trains moving in a complex operation of diplomatic logistics. She began each day with a 7 a.m. phone call to U.S. ambassador Christopher Hill, who was paving the way for the peace talks. That was followed by phone calls to nervous European foreign ministers, Ivanov and U.S. Congressmen--all to keep everyone from wavering on air attacks if Milosevic reneges. Albright has learned from past failures that "she has to be on top of each train to make sure they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine Albright: Packing Heat | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...addressed by courtly standards than by legislation. Say what? She wields Kant and Kierkegaard in defending the past; for modern times, however, her shaky authorities tend to be women's magazines. And though she properly skewers those who ridicule women who say no, her modesty can't handle the complex motivations of those who sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modestly Provocative | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...plot is too good to spoil and too complex to spill. Just know that our gang (Flemyng, Jason Statham, Nick Moran and Dexter Fletcher), scrounging to find that half a million quid, overhears the goons next door plotting to steal money and drugs from four ganja growers nearby; our lads hope to cash that booty in with an Afro-Cockney gang. (Clear?) Then it all goes as wrong as a bad day in Bosnia. "Could everyone stop getting shot?" one of the goons pleads--and this is before a shoot-out that makes the St. Valentine's Day Massacre look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond Pulp Affliction | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...appreciate a show like the Hasty Pudding's, a grasp of the plot is merely a bonus, for its heart lies in the spectacle. Yet the writers, Greg Lau '99 and Ben Kaplan '99, nevertheless churn out a fashionably complex storyline (Go, Hasty Pudding! Don't stop giving!) filled with...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Hasty Pudding Rushmores Through History of America | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...Dance Complex 536 Mass. Ave. 547-9363. $8-12. http://cambridge.zami.com/dancecomplex....

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOU CAN DANCE. | 2/25/1999 | See Source »

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