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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...threshold of danger. They would fly at night with their lights out. They'd skim less than 100 ft. over the mountainous terrain at only slightly more than 100 m.p.h. "There are a lot of individuals out on the battlefield carrying small arms and shoulder-fired weapons," says ex-Apache commander Colonel Mike Hackerson, now at the Pentagon. "It could turn into a bit of a knife fight, but that's part of the business." The grunts who fly the choppers say they're confident in their aircraft and their mission plan. "Some people have a perception that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grounded In Kosovo | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...presidential yayasan, or foundation. Dozens were set up, ostensibly as charities, and they have in fact funded a large number of hospitals, schools and mosques. However, the foundations were also giant slush funds for investment projects of the Suhartos and their cronies as well as for the ex-President's political machine. The foundations accepted "donations," which were often less than voluntary. Beginning in 1978, all state-owned banks were required to give 2.5% of their profits to two foundations, according to former Attorney General Soedjono Atmonegoro. Suharto's Decree No. 92, in 1996, required each taxpayer and company making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia: It's All In The Family | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...scene of flammable liquid being squirted into a New York City token booth and set on fire, real-life robbers duplicated the act and badly burned a token clerk. After the TV movie The Burning Bed aired in 1984, with Farrah Fawcett playing a battered wife who set her ex-husband on fire, a viewer in Milwaukee poured gasoline on his wife and burned her to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminals As Copycats | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

MISTRIAL DECLARED. In Ken Starr's case against JULIE HIATT STEELE, 52, ex-friend of alleged Clinton gropee Kathleen Willey; after a jury deadlocked; in Alexandria, Va. Steele, who contradicted Willey, was accused of testifying falsely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 17, 1999 | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

...first of several actors and actresses to play the part before the end of the show), perhaps one of the greatest single scene of any production this semester, is a case in point. Though they are garbed in virtuous white, Lohengrin and his posse burst into the Ex more like characters out of Boyz'n the Hood than heroes of an Arthurian legend. Wearing stuffed animals--those archetypal symbols of sweetness and caring--on their heads like helmets, they perform an absurd dance as a show of force. Paulus and costume designers Amy Rose Berliner '02 and Amanda Whitman...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Taping Hip-Hop, Aping Wagner | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

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