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...goals started coming and they just had a domino effect," Kalil said. "We were very calm, we knew what we had to accomplish, and we did a good job testing the waters...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: F. Hockey Sweeps Opening Weekend | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...tiny country, whose Portuguese colonial administration had collapsed. In fact, President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in Jakarta the day before Indonesian troops went in. With South Vietnam having collapsed only eight months earlier, Washington wasn't about to see another Asian domino fall to the communists. The murder and mayhem wrought by the Indonesian forces may have been distasteful, but Indonesia had been the anchor of Western interests in Asia. So East Timor had to wait for the end of the Cold War and then some before democracy could be allowed to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promising Safety, the U.N. Led East Timor to the Slaughter | 9/8/1999 | See Source »

Already, two people who have seen her reading Power--a woman in the subway and the stylist who works the chair next to hers--have decided to order their own. "You know," Walters says, "it's a domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are Those Guys? | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

...recovery. And Asia could collapse again on its own, perhaps misreading this year's higher stock prices as a sign of economic health when the buoyant markets really are just the result of bargain hunting by a lot of speculators. Already there is evidence that Thailand, the first Asian domino to fall two years ago, is ready to declare victory and backpedal on key promised banking and other reforms. If the speculators lose faith, they will take their profits and run, and emerging markets will sink again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stalking a Tiger | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

CLASS CLOWN David Bowie (4), at Berklee College of Music: "How does a tuba player answer the telephone? Hello, Domino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Finally, in Closing | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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