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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is much to debate about what the U.S. did well or poorly to encourage Russia's transformation. The Clinton Administration hurt itself by steadfastly overlooking Russia's failures. Officials complained privately to Moscow from time to time about rampant corruption, but to listen to them now you'd think it had been at the top of their list for years. Suddenly they are trumpeting Clinton's stern warning recently to the latest Russian Prime Minister that corruption "could eat the heart out of Russian society." Last week Secretary of State Madeleine Albright acknowledged that the "Herculean task" of transforming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Ruble Shakedown | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Political candidates spend millions of dollars on consultants who can sand off the rough edges, buff the family values and come up with a pretested set of nostrums designed to calm the party activists in Iowa and New Hampshire. Follow the rules of the road--never brag, listen to your handlers, hope any controversial thing you ever wrote was pre-database, drop the idea that honesty is the best policy--and you might succeed. By these standards, Donald Trump will be the worst candidate in modern history. As the man once responsible for Georgia beauty Marla Maples' famous tabloid headline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Donald Trump | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

Then I remembered the prayer my mother said after she helped me get ready for the first day of kindergarten. She said that she wanted me to listen to my teachers and enjoying learning from them, and wished me success from that day on. In light of her hopes, a skirt is more than just a skirt. It becomes a hope for a good year and a respect for learning. And that's something that is definitely not frivolous, superficial or materialistic...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Social Analysis: Prada In Paine | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...records on vinyl," she says. "It was mostly instrumental music, but I would listen to my E.T. records all the time...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Songs of Innocence: Cultural Memories that First-years Just Can't Remember | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

First-years, listen up: when seniors were in your place, they had to buy textbooks at the Coop...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What First-years Should Know: Just three years ago, Harvard was a different College | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

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