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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reported live from the White House lawn, rooftops in Beirut, the Great Wall of China and the streets of Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, | Title: A Midwesterner In Harvard Yard | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

This time of year, quilts and beach blankets are laid under leafy green trees that reach higher than five floors. Liz, Breda, Cindy and Michelle are reading heavy sourcebooks and paperback novels, distracted by pleas to join the two or three games of frisbee being played on the lawn...

Author: By Patrick S. Chug, | Title: A Happy Lottery Story | 5/22/1996 | See Source »

Telling one's husband to cut the lawn and seeing it done are two different things. Five days after Elizabeth's suggestion, nothing had changed. That's becoming a Dole campaign pattern--promises without follow-through. (Dole talked about convening some wise elders two months ago but dropped that ball.) This time, it wasn't clear from the family meeting who would select the new broom or carry out this housecleaning. Nor did Dole and his wife discuss any names. Instead something worse happened: news of the Doles' grumbling spread through Republican circles, setting off a round of maneuvering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: CAN LIDDY SAVE BOB'S CAMPAIGN? | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...breaks into Alcatraz. Psycho groupie Robert De Niro tracks Flipper all the way to Alaska. Schwarzenegger takes the Brady Bunch into Witness Protection. Danny DeVito and Shaquille O'Neal--twins! Bill Murray goes bowling with his pet elephant. A tornado spits a giant spaceship onto the White House lawn and out steps the most destructive alien force the world has ever known: Jim Carrey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

Cambridge is home to the nation's two most prestigious universities. It is moving into the 21st century as the home to dozens of fledgling biotechnology companies. Pedestrians walking along Brattle Street would soon find themselves among million-dollar homes complete with automatic lawn sprinklers and personal security units...

Author: By Aby. Fung and Alexander T. Nguyen, S | Title: Cambridge's Area Four: Poverty Tinged With Hope | 5/8/1996 | See Source »

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