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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That's grim news, given the $17 billion U.S. taxpayers are spending on the Milstar satellite system. Maybe the Pentagon should consider using Iridium satphones instead. They're only $3,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pentagon: Should There Be Static On a $17 Billion Hot Line? | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...points in the hitman's life. Continuing with his theme of incongruity, the hitman has donned a black mask since childhood and "wastes" his parents. Nevertheless, when the hitman marries and has a child, Boyle makes a statement about the cyclical nature of life and death for the most grim of professions. Also representative of many of the stories found in the volume, "Mexico" is a story Boyle presents to evoke pathos without overly dramatizing the tragedy. The rapidly spiraling life of a lonely man in Mexico is presented through the eyes of the man as he drinks himself indirectly...

Author: By Jimmy Zha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: T.C. Boyle's Omnibus of Oddities | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

...That's grim news, given the $17 billion U.S. taxpayers are spending on the Milstar satellite system. Maybe the Pentagon should consider using Iridium satphones instead. They're only $3,000 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pentagon Finds Calls Wanting | 11/29/1998 | See Source »

While the future of the men's rugby team isuncertain, Paoli feels the prospects are grim,despite the efforts of the players...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alcohol Incident Ends Harvard Rugby Season | 11/24/1998 | See Source »

...fact, Reporting Vietnam makes one wonder at America's ability to sustain the war effort as long as it did, given the grim news and harsh truths that were being sent home from the front. Was no one listening? Was the power of the government information machine so vast as to overcome the real news from Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The War As It Was | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

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