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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual 4th Circuit Judicial Conference. This year, however, some lawyers took exception to the inclusion of Dixie in his songbook. Many consider the Confederate marching song, which was played at Jefferson Davis' inauguration, to be nostalgic for slavery. Rehnquist is not commenting publicly, but we do have some insight into what else he's doing in his downtime. Earlier this month, he entered, and won, a contest in the Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock column by figuring out that a license plate reading 1 DIV 0 referred to an Infiniti. He's sure to clean up during Supreme Court Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 2, 1999 | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...contain at least one significant likable character, preferably the husband-hunting protagonist herself. But in setting out to satirize some of the more glaring materialism of our time, Janowitz has created an oddly '80s portrait of life in the big city without any of the humor or flashes of insight that might have made this book stand out. A hateful heroine and a catalog of her conspicuous consuming do not an amusing read make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Certain Age | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...reliance and admitting ignorance. I say art because it takes practice to swallow your pride--something none of us Harvardians are too adept at--and to ask for help from a total stranger. But it is in these moments of helplessness that I have gained incredible insight into the Tour and its people...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: POSTCARD FROM SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...reliance and admitting ignorance. I say art because it takes practice to swallow your pride--something none of us Harvardians are too adept at--and to ask for help from a total stranger. But it is in these moments of helplessness that I have gained incredible insight into the Tour and its people...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: What You Can't Learn From Journalism 101 | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...mentor" to someone. If you are the one who calls up a lonely person and asks them to go out dancing or to dinner or to a meal, you've made a difference: maybe you'll give them a story to tell, maybe you'll provide them with some insight they never had before and desperately needed. Indeed, you might even fall in love one night just because you made the decision to go out rather than stay in. Tonight could be that night. Me, I'm going out, and I'm going to listen to some music...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music on the Mind | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

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