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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's the thing. You haven't read the book. I haven't read it. No one you know has read it. Far more Americans know the true story of Pocahontas (she returned to England with her husband John Rolfe--not John Smith--and shortly thereafter died of smallpox) than of Quasimodo (a fictional character, he in fact has no true story...

Author: By R. ALAN Leo, | Title: Disney's Got A Hunch You'll Come Back | 6/25/1996 | See Source »

...between two of the most primitive and instinctual human responses: vengeance and empathy. Where you fall on the capital punishment issue will depend on which of these has won in your own internal debate. Deep down, all death penalty advocates want raw vengeance; they see the faces of Susan Smith's drowned children and the rubble of the World Trade Center and they cannot countenance allowing those responsible to breathe...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: Empathy and Vengeance: A New York Dilemma | 6/25/1996 | See Source »

Associate Registrar Thurston A. Smith III described Herschbach as possessing "boundless energy, imagination and vision...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Herschbach Is Appointed Associate Dean of College | 6/25/1996 | See Source »

...being run today. Foreign spies might now be far less willing to take risks for the CIA if the agency got a reputation for not paying its bills. "The CIA feels very deeply that it must take care of the people who work for it," CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith told Time. White House aides quickly cobbled together an amendment that calls for the commandos to be paid; it will be attached to the defense appropriations bill now before Congress. For about the cost of a new Comanche helicopter, the betrayal of Pham Ninh Ngoc and his comrades may finally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VICTIMS OF VIETNAM LIES | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

This Esmeralda is less a medieval Gypsy than a willful California teen with Joan of Arc aspirations; imagine a Loire Valley Girl, a Militia Silverstone. Hurling invective at Frollo, flirting with the hunky, John Smith-like Captain Phoebus (Kevin Kline) and singing the film's most poignant solo, about a Gypsy holocaust ("God help the outcasts, or nobody will"), she emerges as the latest in Disney's line of feminist freedom fighters--a Pocahontas with Romany eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A GRAND CARTOON CATHEDRAL | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

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