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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because he was from a town near Cambridge, Alex S. Leary '01 knew several students before moving into the dorms. But he contends that it didn't make much of a difference...

Author: By Kelly M. Yamanouchi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alone in Annenberg? First Years, Take Heart | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...block used by Russian military personnel in Dagestan ? and the renewed offensive by Islamic separatists there ? the temptation to link the latest Moscow blast to the turbulence in the Caucasus is strong. But the blast also follows last week?s attack on a games arcade in a shopping mall near the Kremlin, which sparked speculation that a gangland turf battle was involved, or, conversely, that the attack was part of a pattern of provocation by unnamed forces in the corridors of power designed to create a climate of instability as an excuse for a declaration of martial law. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bomb Suspects? Russia's Teeming With Them | 9/9/1999 | See Source »

...much whining about turning the canal into little more than an expensive toll road. The latest version of this anxiety adds a national security tweak: fear of China. In 1997, the Panamanian government finalized a rich deal with Hutchison Whampoa Ltd., based in Hong Kong, to run two ports near the entrances to the canal. American-owned Bechtel lost out to Hutchison under a less than transparent bidding process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama Canal: Giving Up The Ship? | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...four years ago to give up their beloved Vineyard because polling found it insufficiently American? Enough with the sailboats and James Taylor crooning You've Got a Friend, he told them. The swing voter wanted to see the family on a horse, if not in a tent, and nowhere near a Kennedy--so it was off to Wyoming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunny Days Are Here Again | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...child, McCain displays a petulance that leads him, when angry, to hold his breath until he blacks out. As a student, McCain recounts, "I grew more determined to assert my crude individualism." At the Naval Academy he is a self-described "arrogant, undisciplined, insolent midshipman" who graduates near the bottom of his class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playing the POW Card | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

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