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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TELEVISION Another poke in the Eye-its prez departs for greener pastures

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Mar. 6, 1995 | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

That the world of FBI informers is full of squirrelly characters is no surprise. You can't expect Boy Scouts to tell you much about the seedier corners that law enforcement needs to poke into. Even so, there may not be many government informants more rough-edged than Michael Fitzpatrick. Convicted bomber, alleged coke user, he is also the man whose accusations led to the arrest of Qubilah Shabazz, a daughter of Malcolm X, two weeks ago. In an increasingly controversial case, Fitzpatrick's credibility has become central to the government's charge that she tried to hire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOLLOW THE LEADER | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

Only 30 seconds later, the home side went ahead. Hermsdorf tried to poke-check the puck away from Kris Laamanen, but the Saint sophomore flipped it into the net for a 2-1 lead...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: It Coulda Been Worse...Konik, Cohagan Salvage Road Trip | 1/9/1995 | See Source »

...felt like I was a kid again," he says. "If I got there early I would just sort of poke over exhibits...

Author: By Shirin Sinnar, | Title: Students Rarely Frequent Museums | 1/4/1995 | See Source »

...John Updike (Knopf). Again, elder writesman Updike proves his durability by turning out yet another splendid collection of elegant short stories about -- no, no, stay with him -- Wasp geezers who golf. Now and then, unblocked metaphors rise up shrieking: one duffer is resigned "to a golfing mediocrity that would poke its way down the sloping dogleg of decrepitude to the level green of death." Fore? Sure, but Lord, how that senior citizen can write...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Books of 1994 | 12/26/1994 | See Source »

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