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...ceremony, students will wear brightorange stickers on their mortar boards tocontradict this image...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Student Activists Plan to Interrupt Alan Greenspan | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...dead horses eviscerated by scavengers, over a trampled barbed wire fence and you are in Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands a small, bullet-flecked barrack nestled in a hollow, surrounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Fighting Chance | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

This is where my past and Goodman's intersect. I have dodged mortar shells in Bosnia and once kissed a photo of Saddam Hussein on orders from Iraqi soldiers, but never have I been more terrified than on a lovely day in May 1988, with Goodman at my side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oscar Goodman: A Lawyer to Wiseguys Would Rule Sin City | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

...both the Coop and its brick-and-mortar competitors have been forced to regroup and to adapt their business strategies to the changing climate...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Square Bookstores Struggle to Compete With On-line Vendors | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

...both the Coop and its brick-and-mortar competitors have been forced to regroup and to adapt their business strategies to the changing climate...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Virtual Insanity: Square Bookstores Struggle to Compete With Online Vendors | 4/21/1999 | See Source »

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