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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went on to explain what had to be done to reconstruct our racist society. He stressed the theme for which he was to become well known: the means to be used in the struggle must contain the quality of the end. The moral questions to be placed on Montgomery's agenda and on the nation's agenda were like Borders' great baseball game, in that they involved issues of right and of wrong. But, King cautioned, the task was complex and required both firmness, stamina and practical skills...

Author: By Archie C. Epps iii, | Title: A Legacy of Hope | 1/16/1998 | See Source »

...government, whose exasperation was almost tangible, were limited to dragging out a very basic video presentation to explain very slowly how easy it was to exorcise Explorer. They insisted Microsoft was in contempt, and seem set to ask Jackson to implement the long-threatened $1 million-a-day fine. But Bill Gates has lost none of his Teflon coating ? despite the court wrangling, set to continue Wednesday, and another antitrust investigation in Japan, Microsoft stock still managed to end the day up another three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trustbusting for Dummies | 1/13/1998 | See Source »

This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation and the overpowering assumption...

Author: By Donald Carswell, THIS PIECE FIRST RAN ON JUNE 14, 1950. | Title: Beating the System | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us begin with the question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived...

Author: By Donald Carswell, THIS PIECE FIRST RAN ON JUNE 14, 1950. | Title: Beating the System | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...well as in Tokyo) to go without an ambassador for a year. Not that the Koreans were helping. For months, they had refused to admit their problems or even provide credible accounting of their assets and liabilities. By November the embattled government of Kim Young Sam was refusing to explain to U.S. officials just how much money was left in its foreign-currency reserve. Along with negotiators from the IMF, Deputy Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers pushed Seoul to clarify its reserve positions. "If you don't want to tell me, that's fine," Summers advised his counterpart. "But you have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Asian Crisis: The Rubin Rescue | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

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