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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project two cascading spouts of cool, clear water. Above, a young couple claims rights to the day's first ascent of the terraced ruins. For a moment I imagine what it might have been like to live under the Incan lords. Later my guide and I travel up a dirt track through a side valley to Huitoc, a tiny village even further dwarfed by the mountains than Ollantaytambo. The men of Huitoc take turns serving as porters along the nearby Inca Trail, sprinting on rubber-tire sandals or ragged sneakers past winded trekkers while carrying huge boxes and packs. Today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Slow Climb | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

...think coming into Boston the priceswould be vastly inflated," he says, "but you canget a haircut here for dirt cheap...

Author: By Paul K. Nitze, | Title: La Flamme: A Cut Above | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

...large plastic baby doll over the dancing adult skeleton. A star was born. Shortly thereafter, company employees began sending the animation file through email, and soon it became an Internet favorite, accompanied by music ranging from B.J. Thomas' "Ooga-Choka" to Peter Gabriel's "Digging in the Dirt...

Author: By Evelyn H. Sung, | Title: Peddling Pedophilia THE DANCING BABY | 4/16/1998 | See Source »

...that in 30 minutes the judge would issue her ruling in the case. She was granting the motion for summary judgment. It was all over. Bennett had taken a lot of criticism for not settling earlier and avoiding the entire Circus of 1998. But he was convinced all the dirt would have found its way out anyway, and any settlement that included an apology, which Jones' husband had insisted on, would have been seen as an admission of guilt that Clinton would never escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Day Of Deliverance | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Scaife is to Clinton haters what the Medicis were to Michelangelo: the ultimate patron. Until late last year he subsidized the so-called Arkansas Project, a multimillion-dollar campaign, run by the Spectator, to dig up and publish dirt about the Clintons and their friends. From 1993 to 1997, two Scaife foundations transferred $2.4 million to another foundation that owns the Spectator. The magazine turned over much of that money to Stephen Boynton, a Virginia attorney and conservative activist, who spread it around to hunt down stories about the President through various means, including private detectives. The possibility that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hale Storm Rising | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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