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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Journalists are the last to know. We're like terriers on speed; our heads spin at the slightest rattle. But history is a mule in the thicket; it moves when it moves. If you ask me, the story of the year could just as easily have been the moment when Iran lifted its fatwah bounty off the head of Salman Rushdie, or when Iranian President Mohammad Khatami gave an interview to CNN--baby-step signs of a revised national policy regarding the Great Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of the Year | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Steve's next band was equally impolitic; he named it Rapeman. Rapeman was quieter than Big Black, but this is relative. It had a human drummer, for one thing. Rapeman had only one album; it was named Two Nuns and a Pack Mule. The best song builds slowly from a single guitar and frequent silences; then it adds a bass line, then some white noise and then Steve's voice. The song is hypnotic, even lovely, but in typical Albini fashion, this song is called "Kim Gordon's Panties" and features classy lyrics like "If I had that to come...

Author: By Benjamin L. Mckean, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Steve Albini Primer for the Young Folk | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...neighborhood, we don't think the Postal Service is so efficient. We joke that the mail still arrives by burro. Not long ago, it took one of my letters 10 days to go half a mile. Maybe mule train would be better. CINDY BELLINGER Pecos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...seemed headed the wrong way. Harvard, which was playing its first hockey in three weeks due to exams, surrendered an early goal to Colby senior forward Meghan Sittler. When the two teams had previously squared off on Dec. 6 Sittler headlined the scoring column in a 7-5 White Mule...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Hockey Splits Blowouts | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

Instead, the Crimson got to the White Mule net, ripping off seven successive goals. Asano shredded Colby with three goals and an assist. Sophomore defenseman Christie MacKinnon added two goals, including the first of her Harvard career, and one assist, Gerometta fired in two more goals for the Crimson...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Women's Hockey Splits Blowouts | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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