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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since 1995, average SAT scores have declined for Cambridge Rindge and Latin School juniors. Mean SAT math scores are a full 35 points below the state average...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The School Committee Under Fire | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...fact, it began to collapse almost immediately. The unarmed monitors sat by helplessly as the killings in Kosovo continued. And overseas Albanians poured millions of dollars into the province to help arm the growing K.L.A. The K.L.A. was anything but an efficient killing machine, yet its consistent pattern of knocking off one or two Serbian cops a week was enough to infuriate Milosevic and to increase Serb pressure for a reprisal. On Jan. 15 it came: a massacre of 45 ethnic Albanian civilians by Serb security police outside the town of Racak. Furious, Albright engineered an ultimatum that NATO delivered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...emblematic of the problems of dealing with Milosevic. Last week Holbrooke, who had talked Milosevic into two major deals before, zipped into Belgrade with a "final, final" warning. In an ornate reception room with a Rembrandt on the wall, Holbrooke settled into the sofa on which he had sat for hours on other diplomatic shuttles, his back to a window that looked out onto a garden. Milosevic settled into his usual armchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Tuesday morning, Holbrooke returned to the White Palace. "I want to go back over this," Holbrooke said as the two men sat. "You understand our position...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Fire | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Ulysses Grant sat in the White House when Frost was born; John Kennedy was 10 months away from assassination when Frost died. During the 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy would end his set political speech by saying: "But I have miles to go before I sleep." Everyone recognized the line. As Jay Parini remarks in a judicious new biography, Robert Frost: A Life (Henry Holt; 514 pages; $35), it is almost impossible not to memorize "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Like the best of Frost's lyrics, the lines have a mysterious inevitability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Embedded in Our Subsoil | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

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