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Dates: during 1990-1999
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No matter how ridiculous the concept seems, we realize by the end of Wag the Dog that delusion of the masses on a grand scale is a brutally realistic possibility. The media has the power to whip up an emotional whirlwind so powerful that all of America gets trapped in...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film at Eleven: Bigger, Better Conspiracy Theory | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

The real message was simpler: confronted with another disaster, Intel had survived. Again. It was as if Grove's personality and the characteristics that had served him best over the years--courage in the face of fear, passion in the face of discomfort--had been transmitted like tiny electrons into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANDREW GROVE: A SURVIVOR'S TALE | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

No one had foreseen that kind of jumpiness. Three weeks ago, James Kallstrom, who led the FBI's dogged investigation into possible missile and bomb attacks on Flight 800, ruled out those possibilities, and last Tuesday he announced his retirement to private life. The disaster was now officially an accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TINIEST TERRORS | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

A: I'm not a carpenter anymore. I do like motorcycles. In the pursuit of pilotage, thinking it a manly thing would only lead to disaster. It's not about that.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

I wish the McCaugheys the best of everything for their family. Unfortunately, their children may face adulthood in a world fraught with ecological disaster because of overpopulation. There are so many humans that we are crowding out other species and changing the biosphere of the planet. It is time we...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

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