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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demand for impeachment. From compliant judges he obtained rulings that turn White House lawyers, aides and even Secret Service personnel into potential informers for any independent counsel. There is no one in the White House with whom Presidents will be able to discuss confidential problems without fear of subpoena (except for their spouses, who presumably cannot be required to testify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How History Will Judge Him | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

Several states have tried to devise workable new laws to help answer those questions without treading on the rights of mothers. It's a tricky legislative game. In 1996, for instance, Tennessee legislators gave adoptees--except those who were the product of rape or incest--access to their birth certificate while also allowing biological mothers to tell the state they never want contact with their kids. As in Oregon, birth mothers have sued to overturn that law, saying they were promised nothing short of lifelong confidentiality (and wondering why, if adoptees can be prevented from contacting their mothers, they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adoption: Tracking Down Mom | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...seven children. None of his letters survive, and no drawings either. In 1684 he died in a madhouse. Whatever his affliction may have been, it left no interpretable mark on his work. Nothing is known about his personality, and it doesn't matter. And that's about it, except for the fact that his critical fortunes rose steeply in the 19th century--and the much odder fact that until now, no museum in or out of Holland has ever bothered to mount a show of his work, even though his pictures have been eagerly sought by collectors the world over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pieter de Hooch: Visionary Homebody | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

...Except, perhaps, those seniors who have worked dorm crew themselves. Jason S. Cassidy '98 had a prolific dorm crew career, culminating his four year career with a stint as head captain. After cleaning up at Harvard, Cassidy went straight from four years of dorm crew to Wall Street and Salomon Smith Barney...

Author: By Jordana R. Lewis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: It's Not Just Suds And Mops: Discover Dorm Crew Perks | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

...Nobody seems to know what NATO will do either -- except everything it can to avoid pulling the trigger. The U.S. military certainly has grave doubts about the mission. "Pentagon officials aren't sure that air strikes can change Milosevic's behavior," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "We're threatening to break a lot of his stuff, but what do we do if he decides to tough it out? The problem is that right now, Milosevic holds all the cards." Soon, he might even have to show them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo Talks Go Into Overtime | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

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