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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fears and hatreds of her many detractors (HILLARY GO HOME signs sprouted wherever she went last week). There are legions on both sides, and neither can quite believe she is actually going to bring her soap opera to their state. But bring it she will. Where a lesser person might be having a post-traumatic breakdown right about now, Hillary is having a campaign--and, it would seem, the time of her life. Is this politics, psychotherapy, or a little of both? Whatever the answer, the campaign for Senate is filling a large need. It would take a cataclysm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York State Of Mine | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...tellers are on. But it comes to me that with the Clintons, like it or not--and I do not, much--we are in the middle of a primal American saga and the important part is yet to come. Bill Clinton may be merely the prequel, the President of lesser moment--except, so to speak, as the horse she rode...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Cry For Me, Oneonta | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...charges can carry a penalty of up to seven years. But Combs is unlikely to do time. Instead, he will probably plead to a lesser charge and agree to a financial settlement. Such a deal would come with a hefty price tag: Stoute could pocket a payment of anywhere from $1 million on up in exchange for agreeing not to file a civil suit. But even if Combs' legal problems are disposed of, there will be lingering questions: Why would one of hip-hop's smartest executives attack a rival and risk jail? What lit his fuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Puff Daddy: In the Eye of a Storm | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Harvard's lesser deans are in charge of makingsure your quality of life is acceptable. TheCollege deals with mundane undergraduate concernssuch as discipline and housing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Variety of Administrators Shape Life at Harvard | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

Though three other officers were acquitted of lesser charges related to the incident, ?when people take a step back,? says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen, ?the entire trial will be viewed as a major victory for the prosecution: It got its top two targets and the case against Volpe was so strong he had to plead guilty.? The assessment of victory will not only be based on the outcome of the case but also on its process. ?The aggressive prosecution sent out a message: Brutality will not be tolerated, it will be prosecuted, and there will be convictions. Moreover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NYPD Blues: Torture Trial Yields a Conviction | 6/8/1999 | See Source »

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