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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also just plain wrong. The most effective Presidents, as the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. wrote last month in the New York Times Magazine, put their own careers on the line. They "all took risks in pursuit of their ideals. They all provoked intense controversy. They all, except Washington, divided the nation before reuniting it on a new level of understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INAUGURATION 1997: NO GUTS, NO GLORY | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...Area. Roper is no Dirty Eddie; he's a negotiator, who has to ingratiate himself with the malefactors before he can blow their heads off. This offers plenty of chances for Murphy-style comedy, none of which writer Randy Feldman or director Thomas Carter bothered to exploit. Except for a decent scene where Roper mimics a white bandit as a test for his galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie to be Eddie. It's as if Carter thought the project was a smooth vehicle that Murphy could simply ride in, when it's really a hunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 1/17/1997 | See Source »

...things" yet. Almost all the ghosts who have statues and nameplates are men, and some of us who wish the positive force of the Harvard past to help us are women. Especially late at night when the blood sugar is low and there is quiet all through the house, except for the clicking of the occasional mouse, it's easy to be spooked by the ghosts around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ghosts of Harvard | 1/15/1997 | See Source »

...huge photo of a Pentium processor chip. There are smaller pictures of Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci and Henry Ford, though he admits that he has little admiration for the latter. The few personal pictures include one of the original dozen Microsoft employees (most with scruffy beards, except him), one of Ann Winblad on a trip to Germany, and one with Melinda and nine friends on a 1995 vacation to Indonesia. There are no pictures of Jennifer displayed, but he pulls a snapshot out of his desk showing him proudly cradling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN SEARCH OF THE REAL BILL GATES | 1/13/1997 | See Source »

...good thing about a two-game series is that there is another chance for a win the next night. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the second game was merely a carbon copy of the night before--except this time it was even uglier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Icemen Thwarted In Holiday Visit to Minnesota | 1/3/1997 | See Source »

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