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Word: confidante (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rehnquist is one of scores of distinguished legal figures who, with the same mixture of audacity and humility, started out at the top. They were law clerks at the U.S. Supreme Court, members of the small cadre of top young law graduates who each term help churn out the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Putting A Thumbprint on History | 8/6/1990 | See Source »

He has been a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr., a member of Congress, ambassador to the United Nations, Atlanta's mayor. Now Andrew Young wants to be Governor.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: July 16, 1990 | 7/16/1990 | See Source »

Some countries, like China, have been known to mete out swift execution to < their political prisoners. Others, like Cuba, imprison them for decades. Indonesia has a uniquely cruel approach. As early as this week, the Jakarta government intends to execute six men for their alleged roles in a 1965 coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persecution Repression's Hall of Shame | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

The country's new political leadership is likely to rise from ad hoc coalitions of intellectuals, students and workers similar to the Civic Forum in Czechoslovakia and the New Forum in East Germany. In Bucharest a group called the Front for National Salvation announced that it was assuming power. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slaughter In The Streets | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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