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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Aided by the dearth of much real news over the holidays, the nation's papers and airwaves filled themselves with pleas from mourning fans for Seinfeld to reconsider and speculation from any media buyers still in their offices about how NBC would survive the loss of the most profitable show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: It's All About Timing | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

Yes, Mallory, there is a Leona Helmsley. Thanks to the persistent pleas of nine-year-old New Yorker Mallory Blair Greitzer, the Empire State Building's overseer has agreed to bathe the skyscraper in blue and white on Dec. 23 to mark the first night of Hanukkah. The usual red...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

NEW YORK: Vincent "Chin" Gigante will trade in his bathrobe and slippers for 12 years in prison duds, U.S. District Court Judge Jack B. Weinstein ruled Thursday. Having already decided that the "Oddfather" had been faking his mental illness, Weinstein imposed a fine of $1.2 million and brushed off pleas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chin Music's Over for Gigante | 12/18/1997 | See Source »

Despite the passionate pleas of campus leaders, however, many students say they were unmoved by debate over an issue they consider important but distant from daily life at Harvard.

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Students Unmoved by Grape Vote | 12/10/1997 | See Source »

In barring Carey from running again, federal monitor Kenneth Conboy said the Teamsters boss was a party to illegal schemes to funnel nearly $900,000 of union funds to the 1996 campaign in which he narrowly defeated challenger James P. Hoffa. The explosive ruling followed guilty pleas last September by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEAMSTERS BOSS RON CAREY: THE RUIN OF A REFORMER | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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