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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...note cards, and craftily retreats to parable. Zeus, lolling at a seaside cafe, is confronted by Hera's lawyer, who threatens litigation. The father of the gods turns the twit into vinaigrette dressing, pours the stuff over salad, then tells a waiter the greens are wilted and should be fed to pigs. "And bring me a beautiful young woman, passionate but compliant, with small, ripe breasts." Alas, this is Zeus' last good move. In no time he transforms himself into an American tourist, a Lutheran minister from Odense, Pennsylvania. Zeus lusts after the minister's bored and contemptuous wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dionysus At 50 and More Woe | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

Though his cool exterior showed no cracks, Secretary of State Warren Christopher was fed up with a series of insistent questions on Haiti from Jesse Helms, the conservative Republican. "Senator," Christopher said in his deadpan tone, "a few people have sometimes misunderstood my courtesy for a lack of resolve. But I think they've been sorry when they've made that mistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The No-Guts, No-Glory Guys | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

...which made its last serious attempt to curb guns in 1968 -- to deal with the problems of a nation where one person is shot every 14 minutes. "At long last Congress is getting the message," says Jeff Muchnick, legislative director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. "Americans are fed up with the carnage, and they are demanding action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Three Shots At Crime | 11/22/1993 | See Source »

Thousands of undergraduates and alumni from both schools will attend The Game, and all of them will need to be entertained and fed--usually pizza...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: New Haven Readies For Harvard Game | 11/20/1993 | See Source »

...just a problem. I'm not fed up yet," said Yung H. Chyung...

Author: By Noemi Flores, | Title: Water Problem Leaves Matthews High, Dry | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

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