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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...once distant deadline is now approaching at the speed of light. The option to agree is seductive. I dream of spending a semester in Washington working for Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott (R-MS), or touring Europe. Whether or not my dream is feasible is another issue. The whole idea would then be perfect--seven semesters of academic study, one of real life experience...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: Advance to Go, Collect $200? | 2/4/1997 | See Source »

...Four Continents, the flocks of putti as dense as pigeons in the piazza. All these had swarmed across every painted surface in Venice for generations before Tiepolo. But he reinvented them in terms of a spiraling, light-filled exuberance that was unparalleled in its time. No cliche or received idea, once Tiepolo was through with it, failed to come out looking newly minted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: VENETIAN VIRTUOSO: GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

Imagine that the chirpy pop singers New Kids on the Block (now defunct) were all pretty, young British women. Hold that rather perverted idea and you've got the Spice Girls, an all-female pop-vocal quintet out of London. Their debut CD, Spice, has topped the charts in Britain and captured audiences in France, Italy, Japan, Australia and almost every other country where there are young girls and young boys who like looking at young girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: NEW GIRLS ON THE BLOCK | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...especially revealing about the insecurities that plagued her when she took over the Post after Phil's death. "I still had little idea of how to relate to people in a business environment," she says, "and no idea how closely I was being watched by everyone." She also had to unlearn a few of Phil's bad habits. He had thought nothing of mingling politics with journalism: a close friend and adviser to Lyndon Johnson, for instance, the Post publisher was instrumental in persuading John Kennedy to pick L.B.J. as his running mate in 1960. After becoming President, Johnson cultivated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: KATHERINE GRAHAM: THE IRON LADY SPEAKS | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...granting of citizenship to legal immigrants is leaving thousands of legal residents of the U.S. in a benefits no-man?s-land. Says 59-year-old Korean native Chul Baek, a resident of Los Angeles who depends on federal benefits for treatment of his mental illness: "I have no idea how I'm going to live without this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Governors Fudge on Welfare Change | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

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