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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Funding student groups is really just a smoke screen, then-hiding the fact that the council is largely impotent to do anything other than follow a procedure for giving out cash to people who ask for it. And there's even a big question in my mind as to whether student groups need more money. The term bill hike would mean, according to the council's hypothetical budget, that $180,000 would go to that purpose alone-a $100,000 increase over the current level of funding. There is something to be said for not giving every student group...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Let's Make a Deal | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...long answer to the question covers what you would expect: The two men are accomplished, they are using the latest and best technology and equipment, and they have been graced with good luck. But the short answer is: Piccard is Swiss. "Because of his nationality, that of a neutral country, Piccard was able to obtain permission from China to pass over its airspace," says TIME writer-reporter Nadya Labi, who is following the flight. Other balloonists have had to do the aeronautical equivalent of gymnastics to try to get around China, dooming their flight. So why haven't we heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jet Stream Carries Balloon Toward a Record | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...once again on forcing the hand of the Serbs. "The original premise of the talks was that the fundamentals of the agreement are nonnegotiable," says TIME Paris correspondent Bruce Crumley. "The Serbs won't be allowed to renegotiate it. And with NATO threatening to bomb him into compliance, the question may once again become how much punishment Milosevic is prepared to take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Serbs Under Pressure | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...reason for her success. "I don't link it with my past at all," she says. "Maybe you think that's naive." Her breezy manner turns prickly whenever Seinfeld enters the conversation. When a correspondent for CBS' 48 Hours, interviewing her for an upcoming show, popped a question about him, she stormed off with the camera still rolling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Her Fashion: Jerry Who? | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...fall line--though a few were disappointed there were no matching winter-weather thongs. "The very thing that captivated Seinfeld is captivating everyone else," says Kate White, Cosmo's editor in chief. "He fell for her because of her beauty and charisma, and so have we." Now the question is whether it's a spring fling--or a love built to last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Her Fashion: Jerry Who? | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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