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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rivalry, and it was a night game in front of a huge crowd," senior midfielder Armando Petruccelli said. "Everyone in that place was pumped, and I think it was the atmosphere that created the early physical play, not anything personal...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: No. 8 Yale Too Much for M. Soccer | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Last time we played on this field, two years ago, they upset us," said midfielder Julia Blain. "We had a huge win streak going in to the game, and they upset us. It was all about revenge, a little bit of pride...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Pulls Off 1-0 Win at Yale | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Swiss and Russian officials are investigating two other cases with far smaller dollar values but with huge political stakes. In one instance Swiss authorities raided two companies, named Andava and Forus. They were allegedly used by Boris Berezovsky--one of Russia's richest titans and an intimate of Yeltsin who helped bankroll his 1996 re-election, and reputedly handles the Yeltsin family finances--to misappropriate hard-currency receipts diverted from the Russian airline Aeroflot. In the other instance a Swiss-based construction company called Mabetex allegedly paid bribes to government officials, notably Pavel Borodin, another Yeltsin intimate and manager...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Ruble Shakedown | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...brought only his memories. Adding a patina of covert authenticity, the bulk of the conference took place at Teufelsberg, a once secret complex built on an artificial mountain in a forest near the outskirts of West Berlin. Surmounted by the eerie globes of eavesdropping radio antennas, Teufelsberg was a huge cold war spy station. (These days it's in the hands of local developers, who are hoping to build a spy-themed hotel on the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Spied on You | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Americans emphasized the superiority of their technical-intelligence gathering, from both U-2 overflights of the Soviet Union and early satellite surveillance disguised as a weather-monitoring program. The Russians asserted a huge advantage in human intelligence, with Kalugin claiming that 200 Russian agents had penetrated virtually all branches of the U.S. government by 1948. As one ex-CIA agent joked, all those conspiracy theories of the 1950s turned out to be true after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How We Spied on You | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

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