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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Davis and the California legislature are putting on a clinic for the D.C. class, which can't agree on the time of day. Says Californian Leon Panetta, President Clinton's former chief of staff: "The public right now looks at Congress and sees a lot of meanness and partisanship and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gray Davis: The Most Fearless Governor in America | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

Suddenly, it's 1986 all over again in Washington, and terms like "Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty" and "verification" are getting play they haven't seen since the days when Edmund Morris had only just met lifelong pal Ronald Reagan. Readers could be forgiven for being a bit confused - didn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Plays for Time on Test Ban Treaty | 10/10/1999 | See Source »

Still, it's probably in everybody's interest to stall. Republicans won't look good if they actually succeed in defeating ratification, which would effectively scuttle the whole treaty and give the green light to India and Pakistan to continue their game of nuclear-test chicken. And it doesn't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Plays for Time on Test Ban Treaty | 10/10/1999 | See Source »

Although the advancing Russians had by Wednesday captured the northern third of the rebel republic, they had done so for the most part without much of a fight. "Chechen forces were biding their time," says TIME Moscow bureau chief Paul Quinn-Judge. The Chechens, whose president, Aslan Mashkadov, called Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little War Shouldn't Spoil a Good Vacation | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

TIME senior science editor Phil Elmer-DeWitt wonders about that - "I?d like to see them replicate this in a lab. I give a lot more credence to the brain cancer theory," he says - but that?s almost beside the point. Has a cigarette-style war over America?s favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Told You Not to Call Me at the Pump | 10/8/1999 | See Source »

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