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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dudley, it's kind of quiet during the days," he says...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Bus Through Boston, Its People | 9/30/1998 | See Source »

Three teenage girls are in the front, talking quietly. Two more teenagers laugh and chatter in the back. Other than these sounds, the bus is quiet...

Author: By Stephanie K. Clifford, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Bus Through Boston, Its People | 9/30/1998 | See Source »

...table in front of him at Balthazar (still the trendiest restaurant in New York City--he hopes, apologizing for the brunch crowd that "couldn't get in at night"), McInerney rebuts the accusation that his life-style has hurt his prose. "There are a lot of people writing about quiet contemplative lives in the Midwest, a lot of people writing about academia and plenty of people writing about the suburbs," he says. "If I taught college in the Midwest, would I be a better writer? Would the world be a better place? I don't think so. Somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Man of His Time | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Once you've said, "Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes," there's really no going back. But Gingrich is a known commodity. Here in Massachusetts, we also have a Speaker in need of some quiet time...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Speakers' Corner | 9/24/1998 | See Source »

Later that day...the uniformed Secret Service officers at the Northwest Gate were told that no one would be fired--so long as they remained quiet. According to Sergeant Williams, Ms. Currie said that if the officers did not "tell a lot of people what had happened, then nothing would happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Affair Of State | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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