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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...insisted that propaganda--along with the special police--is one of Milosevic's two keys to power. It is also why, in a brutal attempt to end that information imbalance last Friday, NATO blasted a Serbian state television station in Belgrade. A barrage of bombs hit the building before dawn, killing at least 10 of the estimated 70 people inside. But if the attack was brutal, it was also ineffectual. Serbian state TV was back on the air within six hours, broadcasting its regular fare, including a statement by the Serbian Information Ministry saying that "by targeting [Serbian TV], NATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serbia: Mind Game | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...case you didn't get it). Campus posters are something like little slices of Harvard life, not just because of the events they advertise, but also because of how they try to get our attention. If you are one of those mysterious poster-trolls who traverse the Yard at dawn to wallpaper it with your fluorescent dreams--tearing down competing posters in the process, of course, you inconsiderate fiends--you know that campus posters succeed best when they prey on our fantasies. No one wants to read about the Kendo Club. But if your poster says, "FREE HOT PHONE...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Billboards in Fantasyland | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

Though the battles represent the start of our nation's fight for independence, Patriots Day is a holiday unique to Massachusetts. Every year in Concord, troops of minutemen assemble at dawn to reenact the march to the Old North Bridge and the subsequent battle with the redcoats while over in Lexington, history buffs watch a similar reenactment of the skirmish on the green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Patriots Day Fever | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...confirm, but there is special concern after the disappearance of tens of thousands of refugees who had been seen just inside Kosovo trying to get out. Last Tuesday night, at least 70,000 refugees had gathered on the Kosovo side of border crossings into Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia. At dawn on Wednesday, the crossings were empty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As Kosovo Burns | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...everything from novelistic memoirs to personal essays. "As long as the tale has a universal theme, drama and insight," she stresses, "no incident is too small." Exemplifying these qualities are the stories of Yvette Audet, 66, a Maine widow who writes detailed accounts of her childhood: of rising before dawn on cold mornings to pick potatoes on neighboring farms, of kneeling nightly with her family and reciting the Rosary. Before Audet, a mother of six, began taking Ledoux's workshop in Lewiston, she taught herself to type and even went back to school to get a general equivalency diploma. Audet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autobiography: Thanks For The Memoirs | 4/12/1999 | See Source »

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