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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when I return to these children's books with an adult eye, this world becomes a stranger and much more melancholic place. For all his glamor and gumption, Tintin is an emotionally inscrutable character. Like another eternally young character, Peter Pan, Tintin's refusal to grow up (or settle down) betrays an ineffable sadness that clings to his beige trenchcoat...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Endpaper: Tintin | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...countries and Russia at a summit of foreign ministers in Germany on Thursday. The agreement provides for an end to violence and repression in Kosovo; the withdrawal of Serb security forces; the deployment of ill-defined "international civil and security presences" under mandate from the United Nations; the safe return of refugees under the auspices of a U.N. interim administration; an agreement for the political autonomy of Kosovo within Serbia; and the disarming of the Kosovo Liberation Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We All Win! NATO, Russia Agree on a Peace Fudge | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...another small law school looking to sell me on their beautiful campus in the middle of Pennsylvania. But when I picked it out of my bag a few minutes later to take a closer look, I got suspicious. The video was addressed to me by hand, and the return address was the cryptically-named Tell the Truth Project with only a P.O. box in Milwaukee...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Listening to 'Silent Scream' | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

...another small law school looking to sell me on their beautiful campus in the middle of Pennsylvania. But when I picked it out of my bag a few minutes later to take a closer look, I got suspicious. The video was addressed to me by hand, and the return address was the cryptically-named Tell the Truth Project with only a P.O. box in Milwaukee...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Listening to `Silent Scream' | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

...fight in Kosovo; President Milosevic is telling his troops that their work there is done. And that may be a prelude to a new peace offensive from Belgrade. Clinton on Wednesday again stressed that NATO would fight on until Serb troops are withdrawn and the refugees are allowed to return under the protection of "an international force with NATO at its core." President Milosevic, though, appeared to be preparing to make a new concession Wednesday, when he praised his army for withstanding the alliance's attacks and declared that the "terrorist threat" posed by the Kosovo Liberation Army had been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic 'Victory' Boast Smells Like a Peace Ploy | 5/5/1999 | See Source »

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