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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't. This week the Senate is expected to consider a bill called the Religious Liberty Protection Act, whose turgid name suggests that what the Pilgrims held dear is threatened in the very nation they founded. Supporters believe that government officials disrupt religious activities even today, despite the First Amendment's crystal-clear language: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law on Bended Knee | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...York City, councilman Noach Dear, who represents the district where the shooting occurred, says the issue is not new to him. Across from his office, a mentally ill woman living in a small apartment almost daily flings feces out her window. "The police say they can't do anything about it," Dear says. "The mental-health department says it can't do anything. People look at me and say, 'Why do we need you, if you can't do anything about this?' It's very frustrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Police and the EDPs | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...them off? On the brink of collapse and with its people racked by starvation, North Korea's most successful business is one that involves pulling cash and aid out of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan in exchange for abandoning an arms buildup. Nobody knows just what "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il and his comrades would do to save themselves and their regime. And nobody wants to find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: Ready, Aim, Extort | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...Angeles. They can only have read it for pornography, we thought--they live off lettuce leaves! When we were at a lunch in Australia, there were these 800 people waving their table napkins around and cheering. I remember we looked at each other and Jennifer said, "My dear, I feel like a cross between the Queen Mother and the Beatles." When I last spoke to her she made a great point of saying if anything happened to her, I must tell people her liver and her arteries were in perfect condition. She said, "It's only the smoking that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eulogy: JENNIFER PATERSON | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...stuff. McGwire's 70th homer ball last season fetched $3 million. The famous Barry Halper collection, which includes Ty Cobb's dentures and a lock of Babe Ruth's hair, will rake in an estimated $45 million at auction next month. Baseball memorabilia has never been more dear, owing to a tidal wave of enthusiasm for the sport that stems in large part from last year's Sammy and Mark show--airing again this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back in the Game | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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