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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston area certainly has its own international signs. On the subway, if you stand up and offer your seat to an old woman, this tells your fellow passengers "I come from the South, where our lack of industrialization and continuing resentment of General Sherman are some-times overshadowed by our politeness. Now that I have been polite, please stare at me like I just grew another...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: The Universal Language | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

...There's no avoiding it," says Dalia Victory, a Sherman Oaks, Calif., mom whose son, Andrew Rahimi, 9, is doing what President Clinton should have done long ago. "Every time the word sex comes on TV," she says, "he covers his ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Exposure | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...they just leave the President alone?" That's the question Sherman Oaks fourth-grader Cassini Quinones asks. "She says he seems to be a nice man, and the world is running O.K., and isn't he doing his job?" says her father Adolfo. "This comes from a nine-year-old! Children are very smart. She wanted to know what allegations are. I explained that it's like when your brother says something about you is true, but we don't have proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indecent Exposure | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...that is, Klein hasn't stopped them first. The antitrust chief's larger investigation remains active and aggressive; a Justice source confirms that wider anti-Microsoft action under the Sherman Act, if it comes, will probably arrive before the new operating system does. First Jackson will hear from "special master" Lawrence Lessig, the Harvard law professor whose court-ordered study of Microsoft's business practices is due in May. Around the same time, of course, Microsoft's appeal (which includes a request to have Lessig removed from the case) reaches court, and Win98 hits software shelves near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Gates Blinks | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...hold that mint julep, Rhett: the flag in question is done in red, black and green--the colors of African liberation. In the heart of the city where the first shots of the Civil War rang out, Sherman Evans and Angel Quintero, both 34, both black, have fired a volley of their own. At NuSouth, their 10-month-old boutique, all the gear features that red, black and green flag logo, a symbol, they say, of racial solidarity. "It's about unification, not polarization," says Quintero, noting that most of his customers are white. The line has caught the attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Whistling a New Dixie | 1/19/1998 | See Source »

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