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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...skeptics remain unconvinced by the anti-religious liberals' influence on politics, their excessive secularization of our public schools should make them weep. Admittedly, children do have the constitutionally protected right to pray in school, individually or in groups, silently or aloud, as long as they don't disrupt classroom activities. But the wicked liberals still insist that we shouldn't be able to force them to pray. The liberals have also kept creationist pseudoscience out of our science class-rooms. Evolutionists already have the unfair advantage of scientific evidence. If we can't get creationism in, we cannot allow evolution...

Author: By Derek C. Araujo, | Title: A Dire Threat to Religion? | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...service to arrest or deport them and allow the agency to sift through materials left in their apartments. In many cases, the CIA didn't know "exactly what each person was doing," says an intelligence official, "just that he was doing something with a terror organization, so we should disrupt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Hunt For Osama | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Though the U.S. soon flexed its military muscle with the cruise-missile strike against bin Laden, and his network has been quiet for four months, Washington still sees him as a major threat. The White House has ordered stepped-up efforts to disrupt the terror network, but with mixed results. Treasury Department officials have made no headway dismantling bin Laden's financial empire. Most of his investments are in European or African companies that are unaffected by U.S. economic sanctions and don't deal in dollars, which Treasury could track. The State Department, likewise, has not convinced Afghanistan's ruling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Hunt For Osama | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

...more it becomes simply part of the political background as life goes on," says Love. "People are getting sick of the issue -- a majority of Chileans believe Pinochet is guilty, but they are also telling pollsters that the issue doesn't affect them." The one thing that could disrupt the onset of calm, of course, would be the general's return home. That would force Chileans to decide his fate themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Learning to Live Without Pinochet | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

...last night's victory over Harvard, the Boston University men's basketball team utilized its superior team quickness, as well as a trapping, pressure defense to which the Crimson (3-3) was not accustomed to disrupt the Harvard offense...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Cannot Handle Pressure | 12/9/1998 | See Source »

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