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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...light of Thursday night's stabbing of the wife of a Harvard law professor, about 50 law students yesterday morning ended an overnight sit-in outside the office of Law School Dean Robert C. Clark...

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Law Students End Overnight Sit-In | 4/6/1991 | See Source »

After a lengthy debate, the students finally decided at about 9 p.m. to go ahead with the overnight vigil, said BLSA President Charisse A. Carney...

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Law Students End Overnight Sit-In | 4/6/1991 | See Source »

...similar sit-in held on the national strike day last year turned into the first of two overnight vigils outside Clark's office last spring...

Author: By Toyia R. Battle, | Title: Law Students End Overnight Sit-In | 4/6/1991 | See Source »

...Palestine would fulfill in Jordan the Palestinian statehood dreams of Arafat and the P.L.O. -- dreams that have always been beyond their grasp. Who then would need Arafat and his liberation organization to create a Palestinian state that already existed? Arafat's official power would vanish overnight. Talented Palestinian leaders brought to the fore to run Jordan would control the state. Arafat, discredited by his mindless actions of late, would have to retire and salvage what he could of his once revered status among Palestinians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Some Advice for King Hussein | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

...Middle East analyst at the National Security Council. Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, agreed: "In the Arab world, you always have to be prepared for bargaining, and this may be the opening gambit." And Saddam, for all his intense stubbornness, could reverse course overnight if that seems necessary or desirable. Witness his blithe return to Iran last summer of the pitifully little territory Iraq had gained during eight supremely bloody years of war between the two countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battlefront: Saddam's Endgame | 2/25/1991 | See Source »

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