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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe it was just a little misunderstanding, a thing that happens from time to time in every family. Maybe Al Gore really had someplace better to be at the moment Bill Clinton arrived on the South Lawn last Monday morning to announce that the gods had bestowed an extra trillion--with a t--dollars on the U.S. Treasury. Maybe Gore, a serious man who worries about serious things, had to polish the speech he was making that afternoon in Philadelphia on the war against cancer. Maybe the White House had pressed him to try to make the event, and Gore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Marriage Be Saved? | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...spent three of my high school summers acting in the local theater company and picking up part-time jobs whenever I had the time. I mowed my neighbor's lawn one summer. I spent another July directing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at a children's theater camp. And I spent the summer after senior year in a mind-numbing job as a cashier at the local supermarket...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, | Title: Lazy Days Are No More | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...minute subway ride away, the lawn in front of Harvard's Tercentenary Theatre is plush, and the crowd seems plump with well-being. Alum Jerome Vered, 41, an HBO researcher, feels fortunate that he hasn't faced "a real curveball, like a spouse or child dying." Tamara Remy, 24, a new Harvard Law grad, holds pink flowers and high hopes. "Just today we were wondering if there's a President among us," she says of her class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harvard vs. the School Of Hard Knocks | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

Right now my father is vigorous, and he has a rich life. He just bought a new lawn mower--and not a self-propelled one. He rakes his leaves and rides his bicycle. A retired physics professor at Princeton, he directs and teaches in a summer program at the university and serves on the boards of several nonprofit institutions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Of Life | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Hanging up from a conference call, the woman about to be named the Radcliffe Institute's first dean rushed across the lawn from her Schlesinger Library office to Fay House, Radcliffe's porticoed headquarters. She arrived to find the upstairs conference room already full...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: How the Deal Was Done | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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