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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christmas coming early in 1996, or is this a cruel, costly hoax? President Clinton is traveling the campaign trail [Nation, Sept. 16] at taxpayer expense, carrying a bag full of tax-dollar promises with a hole in the bottom while making believe he's the Democratic Santa Claus. Bob Dole is wearing a Republican Santa suit and hauling around a similar bag of promises. But neither of these impostors can deliver his presents without a working majority of his elves in control of Congress after the Nov. 5 election. It's time the electorate faced up to the fact that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

Four days later, I came across the Crimson headline "Popular Russian Puppeteer Dies." I was hit by disbelief. The puppeteer couldn't be dead; I had just seen his act. I immediately and cynically assumed there must be some sort of hoax. This puppet man had to be alive...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: FOKIN'S LAST PERFORMANCE | 9/28/1996 | See Source »

...anyone considered that the "life on Mars" discovery may be a carefully rendered hoax, not unlike the cold-fusion misadventure of a few years ago? After all, NASA is threatened by major budget cuts. The world's interest in space has made a giant leap forward, and many churches are nervous about attacks on creationism. Scientists have not claimed they have found definitive proof of extraterrestrial life, yet the microscopic evidence is being treated as such by most of the media. Even if scientists did find a bacterial fossil that was truly from Mars, that's still a long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 9, 1996 | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...there are errors both in Posner's book and in the article Time published. I publicly wish to again admit my involvement in the phony dirty-tricks scandal against the Republican Party and President Bush. There was never any g.o.p. plot against Perot. It was all a political hoax to remove Bush. To all those who continue to lie, malign and mislead, I forgive you and will pray for you. SCOTT BARNES Lake Isabella, California

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 2, 1996 | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...backed Palestinians launch themselves as human missiles in suicide missions. What sort of negotiations can be entered into with individuals that have no respect for their own lives let alone those of the Israelis? As Netanyahu said, "Peace without personal safety is a contradiction in terms.... It is a hoax...

Author: By Justin C. Danilewitz, | Title: Netanyahu Provides Hope for Jews | 7/19/1996 | See Source »

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