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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when he insists that Milosevic bears most, but by no means all, of the blame. The Serb leader may have summoned the nationalist genie, but it was a spirit just waiting to be uncorked from its tightly capped bottle. Throughout a 74-year existence, Yugoslavia has been a powder keg of ethnic, national and religious hatreds that go back for centuries. The country that is now vanishing was an artificial creation of conflicting cultures, patched together in the wake of two world wars. Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats and Muslim Slavs were held in check only by strongman Josip Broz Tito...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Do They Keep on Killing? | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...Harvard rugby team was little more than a "rowdy rugby club," according to current Forwards Captain Christopher Geary. A publicity flyer proclaiming "Come play Harvard Rugby" used to depict a player collapsed flat on the ground with beer flowing from a keg into his mouth...

Author: By Laura M. Murray, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: One Serious Business | 4/8/1992 | See Source »

This is a powder keg of momentous proportions. In Quincy House, where the cheer and devotion of the dining hall staff already draw eager luncheoners from afar, and where the puny eating space barely accommodates the residents of this, the largest undergraduate house, we look upon your new restrictions as, frankly, almost a declaration of war. I am sure the inhabitants of Lowell share our peril...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fight for Your Right to Dine | 2/18/1992 | See Source »

Mike Tyson's alleged "serial buttocks fondling." If the charges are correct, this walking keg of testosterone was doing at an Indianapolis beauty pageant what he does in the ring: mauling the competition. Tyson's troubles spotlighted the threat behind many an athlete's swagger: he may think the world is his for the taking, with one swift punch or pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991: Sport | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

Mike Tyson's alleged "serial buttocks fondling." If the charges are correct, this walking keg of testosterone was doing at an Indianapolis beauty pageant what he does in the ring: mauling the competition. Tyson's troubles spotlighted the threat behind many an athlete's swagger: he may think the world is his for the taking, with one swift punch or pinch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best of 1991 | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

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