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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five anarchists summed up the mood of many voters last week when they hung a banner over the side of Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square. AGAINST EVERYBODY, it read. For what it's worth, pundits are betting that the Communist Party and its allies, led by the leaden-tongued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Piece Russia Back Together? | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

The investigation isn't over yet. FBI agents and State investigators are trying to determine the damage by interviewing people who attended 50 to 100 conferences held in the bugged room. They are also exploring whether State Department insiders were co-conspirators, or whether Russian agents simply exploited State's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Still Spy vs. Spy | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

In the early days, the financial advice Giacchetto doled out was as stodgy as his social life was edgy. He spent hours poring over technical charts, and then steered his clients to blue chips like Merck and AT&T. But somewhere along the way, he was seduced by the adrenaline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Falling Off The A-List | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

New York City has adapted a more comprehensive policy of requiring the homeless to go to work in exchange for shelter. A state judge temporarily halted this practice last week in order to consider its legality. Some of the New York provisions are plainly unforgiving: being an hour late to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cracking Down On The Homeless | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

New York City isn't the only place with bad apples. A schoolteacher in Atlanta was caught distributing advance copies of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, and another in northern Georgia was cited when seven of his special-ed students scored a perfect 600 on the language portion of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Teachers Cheat | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

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