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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some students have taken the opportunity to frolic in the snow. Cambridge resident Thomas M. Levenson '80 recalls watching a snowball fight a couple weeks ago, showing that mother nature gives youngsters a chance to have some fun without wreaking too much havoc. "It was gang violence as it used to be and should be," said Levenson...

Author: By Steven G. Dickstein, | Title: Area Snowfall Increases | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

...police picked up 11 Iranian, Syrian, Libyan and Turkish suspects, said Acar, and authorities believe the murder may be linked to six others, including the deaths of an Israeli security officer and a U.S. serviceman. Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel spoke of "certain powers trying to create division and havoc in Turkey." In Ankara hundreds of thousands of mourners tossed red carnations at Mumcu's flag-draped coffin. At the Iranian consulate in Istanbul and elsewhere, protesting crowds chanted, "We are not Iran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fingering Tehran | 2/8/1993 | See Source »

...social havoc wreaked by the AIDS epidemic continues to grow. A report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association estimates that 18,500 healthy children and teenagers in the U.S. have lost their mothers to the disease. The study's authors, from the City University of New York and the Orphan Project, note that most of the children are impoverished and cannot turn to their fathers, who have either died of AIDS, are missing or are unwilling to help out. By the year 2000, the researchers project, the number of AIDS orphans will exceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Misery's Heirs | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

When Campbell was not wreaking havoc, Rullman was raining jumpers on St. Mary's head. He went into the intermission with sixteen points on five of eight shooting...

Author: By John C. Ausiello, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: M. Cagers Survive 2nd Half Collapse | 11/17/1992 | See Source »

...White House is not the only place infected by fin de regime gloom. It looks as if much of the government has been left Home Alone, without an adult in sight, making do at best, wreaking havoc at worst and squabbling like children over who is to blame. FBI Director William Sessions finds himself under investigation for ethical violations -- the victim, says his wife, of a smear campaign by his enemies within the bureau. Meanwhile the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Justice are engaged in an unseemly fight over which one of them issued misleading information about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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