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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie has two other qualities you don't always find in films of this kind: a sense of humor and a sense of character. At a particularly desperate moment when Jack must confront the drug boss, he simply walks up to the boss's gate and blandly presents a CIA business card to the menacing guards. It's a much smarter, more amusing choice than blasting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Clear and Present Thriller | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

...Torricelli of New Jersey, a senior Democrat on the intelligence panel, knows what to make of Woolsey's new, accommodating tone. "When I said those same things to him a few months ago, he flew into a rage," Torricelli says. Woolsey now seems to accept the fact that to confront America's new adversaries abroad successfully, he needs more allies at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble Within | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

Carnesale wrote in a second memo released July13 that he was "confident that the School and itsnext Dean will not confront an unmanageablefinancial situation...We must now establishprocedures to ensure that the cost savings in theSchool's administration are realized on acontinuing basis, and we must achieve greaterefficiency and effectiveness throughout theSchool...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Kennedy School Announces Cuts | 7/19/1994 | See Source »

Breyer has had to confront one other major criticism that professors say is even more unfounded...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Law Profs Denounce Criticism of Breyer | 7/19/1994 | See Source »

...have sold more copies. The program's most popular aria, Puccini's Nessun dorma, became a fight song not only for the World Cup competition but also for record buyers everywhere, who used it as an anthem to get them onto the freeway in the morning or ready to confront the boss. All'alba vincero (At dawn I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: They're Baaack! | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

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