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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no soft spot in this iron horse...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: Runaway Train | 2/10/1997 | See Source »

...would have to rewrite the laws have the greatest interest in not changing them. Arizona Republican John McCain and Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold have been hollering in the wilderness for two years, trying to persuade their fellow Senators to clean up the system. They would ban the unlimited soft-money contributions that both parties depend on (more than $250 million, a historic record, last year) and reward candidates who abide by voluntary spending limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAKE-UP CALL | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

...ever met." Yet he gets locked out of his $40 million house and stuck in the yard, doesn't wear a seat belt while driving recklessly and thinks his daughter is "just beginning to develop a personality." He doesn't have the courtesy to offer a guest a soft drink when he serves himself, leaves his wife for an annual weekend with his former girlfriend and is loud in restaurants. With cold arrogance, Gates incorrectly equates intelligence with being smart, and being smart with being good. Your portrayal actually exposes America's biggest money winner as a loser. DANIEL MELCON...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

Before Sarah Ferguson captured Prince Andrew's heart and the tabloid headlines, there was American-born Koo Stark, a onetime soft-porn film starlet whose liaison with the prince sparked media madness in 1982. After Andrew returned from the Falklands war, the two were sighted frolicking on Mustique. Stills of a nude Koo from her notorious films were splattered across the London tabs. Koo later married Tim Jefferies, heir to a trading-stamp fortune, but the union lasted only a year. Since then she has run her own photography business. Always discreet concerning her romance with Andrew, she is reportedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Feb. 3, 1997 | 2/3/1997 | See Source »

There are two texts required, Understanding Earth, a colorful soft-cover book replete with photos and diagrams, and a user-friendly Exercises in Physical Geology, which makes use of extensive illustration...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: eleven electives | 2/1/1997 | See Source »

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