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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wildly popular Governor of Texas, the alpha dog in the G.O.P.'s presidential Iditarod, running 15 points ahead of Al Gore in the polls. It all looks perfect, except for those three small matters you can't do anything about: you look like your father, you sound like your father, and you're just one Herbert shy of sharing the old man's four-part name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: The Bush Rolodex | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...members the label of "terrorists" a year ago. Already they have killed hundreds of Serb security forces in ambushes and sniper attacks. By last week, as the Yugoslavs massed some 40,000 troops in and around Kosovo's borders, it may have looked like overkill in dealing with a small guerrilla force. But the K.L.A., funded by millions of dollars in aid from sympathetic overseas Albanians--and perhaps millions more in smuggling revenues--has become a legitimate power in the Balkans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo's Army in Waiting | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...where they are vulnerable almost every step of the way. The eggs A hatch in shallow streams, releasing larvae, or alevins B, which within a few months become juvenile fish called parr. Parr, in turn, grow into 8-in. smolts C in about two years, and it is these small, silvery fish that make the improbable migration from freshwater river to saltwater ocean. Smolts that survive the trip--and plenty don't--spend four years at sea, feeding and growing to full adult size (3 lbs. to 126 lbs.). Then they begin the long upstream journey D back to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saving the Salmon | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Former council vice president Samuel C. Cohen '00 said he believed there is no easy solution to the problems posed by ROTC programs on campuses. He pointed out that Harvard students' concerns are only a small part of the controversy surrounding congressional policy on gay men and lesbians in the military...

Author: By Alexis B. Offen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Council Sparks Debate With Proposal to Reconsider ROTC | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...relatively small number of women senior Faculty often leaves women undergraduates, graduate students and junior Faculty without enough role models. Garber pointed out, however, that junior Faculty members need not always have role models of their own gender...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WOMEN in the HUMANITIES | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

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