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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...always resisted the notion of a rotating regional claim to the job -- a concept not mentioned in the U.N. charter -- but it did not counter with a serious candidate of its own. A State Department official insisted that "that would be the kiss of death," and an American diplomat at the U.N. agreed it would be impolitic for the U.S. to use its big-power muscle: "We weren't going to be the 900-lb. gorilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy A Man for All Nations | 12/2/1991 | See Source »

DOWN ON HIGHS. America is starting to kiss off its infatuation with marijuana. The National Institute on Drug Abuse says the number of weed smokers dropped one-third last year, to 20.5 million, from a 1979 high of 31.5 million. Reasons cited for the decline are rising prices, fewer supplies and the plain fact that it's just not cool anymore to use the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Nov. 11, 1991 | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...Rogers last week had to kiss that serenity -- and a $600,000 two-year contract -- goodbye. The wealthy client: Sheik Kamal Adham, the former director of Saudi intelligence and a key figure in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International scandal. According to the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, the well-connected Adham was a B.C.C.I. front man for the illegal purchase of Washington's First American Bank and B.C.C.I.'s main contact with Clark Clifford, the chairman of First American. Adham also received more than $300 million in B.C.C.I. loans, according to bank documents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Scandal: Too Many Questions | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...today, the Big Green can kiss their title hopes goodbye...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: W. Botters Top Dartmouth, Finish Third in Ivy League | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

...late 19th century writer Lafcadio Hearn rhapsodized about the city's sensuality -- "her nights of magical moonlight, and her days of dreamy languors and perfumes." He was even moved to compare its delicious decadence to "a dead bride crowned with orange flowers -- a dead face that asked for a kiss." Actually, the place is a lot livelier than that. It is a seething agglomeration of jazz halls, Zydeco joints, R.-and-B. clubs, great restaurants, all-night bars -- and, of course, Mardi Gras. Where else would a city's business and social leaders don sequined costumes, ostrich plumes, masks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why The Good Times Still Roll | 11/4/1991 | See Source »

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