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...cafe. The waiter hushed patrons to listen to a radio report. "Belgrade," he said, and blew a cartoon explosion through his teeth. Over Wednesday afternoon, as the first reports of NATO attacks filtered in, the city became a menacing presence, its attitude towards the NATO action impossible to pin down. There were fears of reprisal against Americans from Serbian neighborhoods in Budapest. I received the call from Budapest that evening. My friend was leaving the country for France...

Author: By Simon J. Dedeo, | Title: War Comes to Kosovo | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...streak started with a pin of James Gross of Cal Poly at 4:48 followed by a 3-2 victory over No. 12 Mark Perryman of Arizona. A 6-3 win over No. 8 Carl Perry of Illinois sent him to the quarterfinals of the wrestlebacks...

Author: By Jodie L. Pearl, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: DeNunzio and Killar earn All-American Wrestling Honors | 3/23/1999 | See Source »

...first federal economic-espionage case to go to trial, however, is decidedly low-tech--in essence, it's all about glue. In Youngstown, Ohio, next week, Justice Department attorneys will argue that Pin Yen Yang, president of Taiwan-based Four Pillars Enterprise, and his daughter paid Avery Dennison engineer Ten Hong "Victor" Lee $67,500 over a four-year period to steal the $3 billion-a-year company's formulas for making adhesive labels and tape. Officials say China--already defending against charges of nuclear espionage in the Los Alamos case--and Taiwan are among the most notorious purloiners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyeing The Competition | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...present himself as an appealing human being," says Cohen. "People were outraged by the viciousness of the crime and the underlying relationships" -- which involved not only the three-year adulterous affair that Capano had with the victim, Anne Marie Fahey, but the fact that he tried to pin her murder on yet another mistress. Capano, who steadfastly refused to express any remorse, "systematically and contemptuously degraded" everyone involved in his trial, said Judge William Swain Lee as he handed down the sentence. And as a jury in Jasper, Tex., could have told you a few weeks back, nothing cuts across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capano Death Sentence a New Chapter in Crime and Punishment | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...have known the eyes already, known them all-- The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase, And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall, Then how should I begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Lewinsky's Makeover | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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