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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least, the strategy has had mixed results. And Albright has seen her once golden image dim. Places like Baghdad and Belgrade seem every bit as tumultuous today as when she took office. Congress is wary of her promises that U.S. troops--some 4,000 will be part of the NATO force--will be in Kosovo no more than three years. And negotiations in places like Israel are frozen. It is hard to pin the blame for those stumbles on Albright--these are, after all, centuries-old conflicts. But her tenure has been dominated by the irritations of what aides call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Madeleine Albright: Packing Heat | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

...even heard some dim wits on WEEI, Boston's wanna-be WFAN, refer to the Red Sox, with the fifth-highest payroll in baseball last year, in such terms...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The "V" Spot: Yanks Grab Headlines, Hurt Baseball With Clemens Trade | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...even heard some dim wits on WEEI, Boston's wanna-be WFAN, refer to the Red Sox, with the fifth-highest payroll in baseball last year, in such terms...

Author: By Mike Volonnino, | Title: Yanks Grab Headlines, Hurt Baseball with Clemens Trade | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...exited the Back Bay T station, the curious orange glow of sodium lamps guided the path. A warm mist gathersedaround the Mass. Pike, a bifurcating behemoth as visually jarring as I-93. Streets narrowed and warehouses multiplied. Combined with the dim lighting, the northeastern segment of the South End looked eerily like Gotham City...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In Boston's South End, Salvation Army Finds a Home | 2/17/1999 | See Source »

DIED. HUNTZ HALL, 78, pop-eyed, baseball cap-sporting comedic actor and member of Hollywood's renowned gang of street toughs, the Dead End Kids (a.k.a. East Side Kids and Bowery Boys); in Los Angeles. Hall, who was first cast as the dim-witted sidekick to Leo Gorcey in the 1935 play Dead End, played the same character in more than 80 of his 120 films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Feb. 15, 1999 | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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