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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Almost every time you do a profile on a biblical figure you go to great lengths to explain and quote the views of liberal scholars and archaeologists. You should give equal space to the opinions of conservative scholars and archaeologists. TIME seems to have a mission of discrediting beliefs, because you do so little to present the other side. ERNEST SCALABRIN Northvale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 11, 1999 | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...Name of Eugenics (1985), an invaluable source for everyone interested in this strange movement, historian Daniel J. Kevles notes, somewhat dryly, that "eugenicists identified human worth with the qualities they presumed themselves to possess--the sort that facilitated passage through schools, universities and professional training." Kevles' insight helps explain the almost messianic fervor that eugenicists on both sides of the Atlantic displayed during the early years of this century. These were people who felt themselves and the future of their children threatened. In Britain members of the upper middle class feared they would be swamped and taxed to extinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cursed by Eugenics | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...source close to the couple who says Hillary has yet to forgive Bill fully. Sheehy's verdict on the marriage: If everyone is addicted to something, as the President has said, "Hillary's addiction is Bill. He is her only rebellion, the one thing she can't logically explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Couple | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Roumiantseva says the problem sets aredifficult, too long, and often irrelevant to thematerial covered in class. Problems that introducenew concepts do not explain the concepts well, shesays...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Math 55: Rite of Passage for Dept.'s Elite Intimidates Many | 1/6/1999 | See Source »

...source close to the couple who says Hillary has yet to forgive Bill fully. Sheehy's verdict on the marriage: If everyone is addicted to something, as the President has said, "Hillary's addiction is Bill. He is her only rebellion, the one thing she can't logically explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill and Hill: Once More On the Public Couch | 1/3/1999 | See Source »

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