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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simple order to begin bombing. What kind of provocation, if any, the U.S. could cite and what justification it could find in international law would bear heavily on whether the U.S. fought the war -- and made a subsequent peace -- at the head of a global coalition or as a lone wolf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf Trip Wires to War | 10/29/1990 | See Source »

...well-placed Eli corner kick created two Yale shots from in close. Reilly was able to deflect the first with a diving save, but the Crimson failed to clear the rebound. Freshman forward Dawn Bushnaq knocked the ball in for the visitors, netting the lone goal of the wet afternoon...

Author: By Liz Resnick, | Title: Elis Slip Past W. Booters, 1-0 In Seniors' Final Ohiri Game | 10/24/1990 | See Source »

...thus giving Damascus the opportunity to complete its control of Lebanon at a moment when the world is distracted by other events in the Middle East. Syrian President Hafez Assad ordered thousands of troops to Beirut to beef up the 10,000 Syrian soldiers already there. On Friday a lone gunman shot twice at Aoun, missing the general and wounding an aide instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East Saddam's Lucky Break | 10/22/1990 | See Source »

...Sunday, Harvard squares off with a less competitive Pennsylvania squad at River Field. The Quakers (1-2 Ivy) will look to avenge their 1-0 loss to the Crimson last season at Ohiri Field. Junior Jeremy Amen scored last year's lone tally against Penn...

Author: By P.i. Rosenthal, | Title: M. Booters Travel South this Weekend | 10/17/1990 | See Source »

...collective fantasies center on mayhem, cruelty and violent death. Loving images of the human body -- especially of bodies seeking pleasure or expressing love -- inspire us with the urge to censor. Our preference is for warrior themes: the lone fighting man, bandoliers across his naked chest, mowing down lesser men in gusts of automatic-weapon fire. Only a real war seems to revive our interest in real events. With the Iraqi crisis, the networks report, ratings for news shows rose again -- even higher than they were for Panama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Warrior Culture | 10/15/1990 | See Source »

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