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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...G.O.P.'s panic contrasted markedly with the steady-handedness that characterized the new congressional majority's first 100 days. There were smiles, however, in the White House. For six months the President and his aides watched haplessly as the Republicans marched all over the political landscape. Senior Clinton adviser George Stephanopoulos, however, foresaw Democratic opportunity. Looking over the Republican agenda last fall, Stephanopoulos, economic adviser Gene Sperling and First Lady Hillary Clinton predicted that the G.O.P. would become vulnerable when the time came to make the painful choices necessary to balance the federal budget by 2002. And they laid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOST UNKINDEST CUT | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...bright morning sun. A rust-brown train under mortar fire. Gray figures in panic scrambling to hide. Faces wrapped in swaths of white. A muddy ditch. And along a hillside, red crosses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLIGHT TO FREEDOM | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

Sometimes hair-dyeing rescues what might otherwise be a boring Saturday night. I mean, c'mon, once you slap on the rubber gloves and start stroking that cold, gooey Manic Panic into your best friend's hair, there's no other place you would rather be. Brown had her initial dyeing experience during high school, when her sister returned home from college for the first time. "It was a great bonding moment," she recalls. Here at school, hair-dyeing continues to be relatively spontaneous. Brown continues, "You have the feeling that you want to dye building...

Author: By Jason Frydman, | Title: A Good Day to Dye | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

...hands. The blast, which killed Murray,47, instantly, was powerful enough to knock two doors off their hinges and blow gashes into the ceiling panels. And it was loud enough to be heard for blocks around, sending hundreds of workers into the streets in fear and bewilderment. Their panic was easy to understand: the Oklahoma City bombing had taken place just five days earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UNABOMBER: THE BOMB IS IN THE MAIL | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

...enjoy," says Charles Maikish, who oversees the Center for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. "It's a commercial complex, not a military installation." Memories are still fresh of the FBI's unbridled COINTELPRO operations in the 1960s and '70s, which targeted antiwar groups. "If we panic, we shall wind up demonizing ethnic groups and letting our law-enforcement agencies become as self-serving and corrupt as was J. Edgar Hoover's,'' says the philosopher Richard Rorty. "Britain has been coping with terrorist bombs for a generation without much retrenchment of civil liberties. If they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW SAFE IS SAFE? | 5/1/1995 | See Source »

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