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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school year--and the real discussions on diversity. This year, in fact, looks to be full of debate on issues of multiculturalism. Not only has a new organization, the "Multicultural Issues Forum," started up, but the Institute of Politics is centering this weekend's Fall 1998 Conference on "A Seat at the Table: Fairness in Minority Representation...

Author: By Jia-rui Chong, | Title: Understanding Political Correctness | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...Tuttle says his bid against McMullen, who has lived in Vermont only about a year, was meant to be a protest run. "Someone asked him what he would do if he won the primary, and he said run," says his daughter Deborah. "But he didn't mean for the seat. He meant the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lights, Camera...Fred! | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...decades since, space travel has become numbingly common--essentially zero-gravity milk runs to ferry cargo up and down. But this very monotony has given Aldrin and others an idea. Now that visiting space is so routine, why shouldn't anyone--even a vacationer--be able to book a seat? Says Aldrin: "We're on the brink of at last democratizing space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vacations in Orbit | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...went on to serve in the House of Representatives from 1990 to 1998, and she was the keynote speaker on behalf of presidential nominee Bob Dole in the 1996 Republican Convention. After stepping down from her House seat, Molinari hosted a short-lived weekend news program...

Author: By Sarah E. Reckhow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: IOP Fall Fellows Present Perspectives on Public Service | 9/23/1998 | See Source »

Consumers pay less for a frilly, carpet-covered toilet seat at a cavernous Wal-Mart or K-mart than they would pay for that same glorious throne at a local mom-and-pop store. And, thus, the consumer is better off. Who am I to stand in the way? By criticizing this trend, I am not trying to advance a socialist agenda, I am merely lamenting the disappearance of small-town America, the America suggested to me by Norman Rockwell paintings...

Author: By Timothy F. Sohn, | Title: Where Have the Small Towns Gone? | 9/22/1998 | See Source »

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