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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nobody escapes justice. I have little doubt that Pol Pot is now rubbing elbows with butchers of past generations. MICHAEL ACHESON Port Angeles, Wash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 18, 1998 | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

Specifically, the U.S. wants the big new carrier, the one the oilmen call the main export pipeline, to run westward from the Caspian to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, on the Mediterranean, because Turkey is a NATO ally. The U.S. does not entirely trust Russia, which resents the arrival of foreign influence in what were Soviet republics. To Washington, the Islamist regime in Iran looks even less friendly. "The last thing we need," says a White House aide, "is to rely on the Persian Gulf as the main access for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rush For Caspian Oil | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...years. "This," he says, "is pretty close to the magic bullet." The very day Viagra became available, Dr. John Stripling, an Atlanta urologist, churned out 300 prescriptions with the help of a rubber stamp he had had the foresight to purchase. At the Urology Health Center in New Port Richey, Fla., which participated in the drug's clinical trials, the waiting time to see a doctor for a Viagra consultation is a month. Not that this has stopped motivated patients. "We've been inundated with emergencies," says Dr. Ramon Perez. "Pain in the kidney. Blood in the urine. But when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Viagra Craze | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...wonder how Fritzner Alphonse, the artist who painted the original of which the Lowell House poster is a print, would feel that his work is now "off-limits." Who is Fritzner? It turns out that he is a Haitian folk artist who was born on July 18, 1938 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He was leather tanner, like his father before him, until 1972, when at the age of 34 he painted his first tableau. He has been an artist ever since. Fritzner is part of a generation of Haitian artists to be influenced by the Centre d' Arte, which...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: What's in a Watermelon? | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

...28th District includes such diverse areas of Cambridge as Harvard, Porter and Central Squares, Cambridge-port and Area...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Thompson Faces Five Challengers in State House Race | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

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