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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Haiti's instability doesn't dent U.S. security. If Clinton were more confident of his leadership, he could offer a straightforward, unadorned justification for intervention, a course that would acknowledge pursuing a sympathy rather than an interest, a preference rather than a need. By building on the junta's brutality, which he mentioned last week, Clinton could have said something like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest the Case for Intervention | 9/26/1994 | See Source »

...report proposes that house committees get more involved in the council. It also suggests that students other than council members be allowed to participate in faculty-stu- dent committees...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Report Pushes Accountability | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

...adviser to the agency on ozone issues, told reporters. On the other hand, he said, the ozone level could recover within a half-century. The report, the work of 226 scientists around the globe, explains that international efforts to reduce the use of chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, have made a dent but take a few years to clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OZONE HOLE . . . THE WORST IS YET TO COME | 9/7/1994 | See Source »

Some would say he was also a very good predator. Stories of Diller's temper and hauteur still raise hackles around many a Hollywood campfire. It's said that Diller, furious at Fox programmer Stephen Chao, threw a videotape past Chao, making a dent in the wall; Chao framed the dent. Thus does Diller, whose stare can go through you like a power drill, inspire passions and animosities. Says a studio executive: "People who have worked for Barry and then escaped have a secret handshake. They consider themselves lucky survivors, like the Schindler Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Barry and Larry Show | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

Thesis writers and other book-hungry students should still be able to check out books normally because the bar code on the ID that is scanned at checkout accesses the library's stu- dent database, which has been changed toaccount for the expirations...

Author: By Edward F. Mulkerin iii, | Title: Expired IDs Still Useful At Times | 7/6/1994 | See Source »

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