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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During my first year of college, I could have named over 50 people I counted among my friends. Now that I am entering my final year, I might put that number at around 10. It's not that my first-year buddies suddenly turned out to be evil impostors who spent all of their free time pretending to be Harvard students. It's just that, like many new students, I thought that my peers were what the college brochure claimed they were: "[my] greatest resources...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Taking College by Degree | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

...suspects are, so the bureau was beaming that it had two key arrests just three weeks after the embassy attacks. The rest of the Administration was relieved as well. It hadn't been a good week for the credibility of Washington's fight against the forces of evil. Scott Ritter, a former Marine who headed the United Nation's inspection team in Iraq, resigned. He was frustrated that while the U.S. talked tough about opening Iraq's weapons facilities to inspectors, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright secretly pressured the U.N. to back off intrusive checks that might spark another confrontation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pair of Quick Arrests | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...Western economic establishment covering its eyes in horror -- but also peeking through its fingers: impose strict currency controls and save the embattled Malaysian ringgit simply by removing it from the fray. The theory is attractive, especially to the prickly Mahathir: An inconvertible currency can't come under attack by evil foreign speculators, and that frees the safely walled-in government to take a deep breath, lower its internal interest rates, and pull itself out of recession by stimulating domestic growth -? without subjecting its every move to the brutish vagaries of the global marketplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia?s Desperate Gamble | 9/4/1998 | See Source »

Ultimately, Bill Clinton stopped telling a full-blown lie not because he wanted to or even because we wanted him to, but because he had to. In Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, who wasn't a fanatic about the truth, wrote: "'I have done that,' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that,' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually, memory yields." In Bill Clinton's case, pride yielded, and the rest is history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lies My Presidents Told Me | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

Throughout Da Game, Snoop strives to come across as hard, harder than the other charges on Master P's label. The refrain for one song goes "Kill, kill, kill/ Murder, murder, murder." Snoop says he's just being more "confident." But this CD has a stench of evil that's not present in Snoop's previous work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Leash On Life | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

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