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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will support such organizations as Emily's List, which works to elect liberal women to public office at all levels. With any luck, before too long we'll have a woman president who's also a liberal, maybe even one of the talented and principled women I saw in the audience at Wilson's speech...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: A Woman for the Right Reason | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

Laura P. Humber '02, a resident of Eliot House, said she started screaming when she saw roaches climbing out her drain after turning on the shower...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cockroaches Invade Eliot, Lowell Houses | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...certain Potter purists are concerned about Harry's upcoming first appearance on the silver screen. British producer David Heyman saw a blurb on The Sorcerer's Stone shortly after its British publication but before the book became a smash. He brought the project to Warner Bros. (like TIME, owned by Time Warner), which optioned the book. The plan is for a live-action film, with Harry played as a British schoolboy. A first script, by Steven Kloves, who wrote and directed The Fabulous Baker Boys, is due by the end of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wild About Harry Potter | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...saw no difference in playing DVD movies or running any of the rich programs in the vast, dark Quittner Collection, although the Athlon is supposed to handle multimedia much better, thanks to its 200-MHz bus, vs. the Pentium's 100-MHz bus. (Think of the bus as the highway between the microprocessor and the rest of the computer.) A spokesman for Intel pooh-poohed the importance of bus speed, saying the real bottleneck is elsewhere in the computer. As for all the other benchmarks that show AMD's chip being faster, Intel had no comment, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racing Chips | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

After tucking my child into bed, I opened my TIME to the article on the earthquake in Turkey and saw the photograph of Emine Kacar, trapped in the ruins of her building [WORLD, Aug. 30]. I wept for this woman, her children dead, a child's small body lying beneath her own. I had read the headlines and kept pace with the daily death-toll updates, but the scale of human suffering did not touch me until I connected with this victim. You say in your article that "it is the individual snapshots that bring Turkey's tragedy home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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