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...Zaire finally ended last May; of prostate cancer; in Rabat, Morocco. In the cold war theater that was Africa, Mobutu profitably played the anticommunist, earning an ally in the U.S. and seizing power in what was then the Belgian Congo in a 1965 coup. He ordered the nation to discard Western dress in the name of African authenticity and touted nationalization and other economic reforms. But he spent the following decades looting his resource-rich country, leaving it bankrupt and impoverished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...concern over the security of e-mail, administrators are requiring that all e-mail users discard their current account password at 9 a.m. on Sept...

Author: By Molly Hennessy-fiske, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Must Change E-Mail Passwords in Sept. | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

...cram for finals, the Crimson faces the loser of the Oklahoma State-Stetson game. While many students might want to forget about anything to do with Harvard over the summer, our baseball team's accomplishment in beating the fourth-ranked team in the nation is something too memorable to discard...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: One for the Ages | 5/23/1997 | See Source »

QUOTE OF NOTE: "We must return fiscal sanity to the Federal Government and discard the foolish notion that all problems can be solved by more intrusive government programs and yet more spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: NORTH CAROLINA | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

...doctors come to grips with cancer's complexity--and discard the dream of discovering a "magic bullet" capable of eradicating the disease forever--a succession of small, incremental improvements shows promise of pushing the death rate down. Already doctors have learned how to keep the disease at bay for months, and sometimes even to produce complete remissions that may last for years. "We're running a marathon, not a sprint," observes Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman, a pediatric oncologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "What's important is not how fast we run the first two miles but when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY WITHIN | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

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