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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They were a coterie representing 50 million disabled Americans who were invited by the U.S. Park Service to preview the sprawling monument for Franklin Roosevelt to be dedicated May 2. The monument spreads out grandly on 7.5 acres along Washington's Tidal Basin, great blocks of ocher South Dakota granite carved with the soaring phrases of F.D.R.'s that brought this nation through economic collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A MONUMENTAL MISTAKE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

RICHARD JEWELL FBI agents in Atlanta were under tremendous pressure from headquarters to make progress in solving the Olympic Park bombing. So they came up with a scheme to trick Jewell into being interviewed by saying it was part of a training tape. Freeh was monitoring the investigation closely and called to insist that the agents inform Jewell of his Miranda rights. At that point Jewell smelled something funny, stopped talking and asked to see his lawyer. When the case against him collapsed, veterans blasted Freeh for botching their scheme to trick him into talking. Never mind that they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FBI: UNDER THE MICROSCOPE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Every cell in eight-year-old Damaso's body is telling him not to do his homework. School is out. It's a nice day. There's a football game in the park across the street. How can he possibly tear himself away to bother with math and vocabulary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWELL'S ARMY CAN START HERE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Norris Square sits in the middle of a graveyard of shuttered factories, crumbling houses and a thriving drug market, and yet this one city block--a park surrounded by houses, churches and community centers--has looked better every year for a decade. Parents once kept children inside because dealers controlled the park, which was filled with needles, condoms, broken glass and knee-high weeds. Today the park is neatly landscaped and filled with moms pushing strollers and children playing on new equipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWELL'S ARMY CAN START HERE | 4/28/1997 | See Source »

Much of the board's debate centered around the proposed "green park space" that Scott and First planned to build outside the juice...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Nantucket Denied Variance | 4/25/1997 | See Source »

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