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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Within a span of two hours last Sunday, two unattended packages were reported and checked as possible explosives at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Terrorism: Could It Happen Here? | 8/2/1996 | See Source »

Yeltsin has managed to get re-elected, but can he govern? At 65, he is already well past the average life-span of Russian men, and since July 1995 he has had at least two episodes of myocardial ischemia, a shortage of blood supply to the heart. He also has a long pattern of rising to crises and then withdrawing into spells of depression and heavy drinking, though this time he promised voters he would not "go into hibernation." He cannot afford to. Reform of the Russian economy is still a work in progress, and his lieutenants are already circling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YELTSIN CAN GET RE-ELECTED, BUT IS HE ABLE TO GOVERN? | 7/15/1996 | See Source »

...Life Video) are legion. A Chopra Website is in the works as well as a CD-ROM touted as "the ultimate Chopra experience." For those who do not read, watch television or surf the Net, the man himself will most likely soon appear nearby. In a recent six-week span, Chopra spoke in Denver, New York City, Puerto Rico, Los Angeles and Sacramento...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEEPAK CHOPRA: EMPEROR OF THE SOUL | 6/24/1996 | See Source »

...concert was the first in a series of six, the next five of which will be performed throughout Italy over a 10-day span beginning June 8. The group has been planning the trip for over a year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRO Previews Summer Tour | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

Poetry is autobiography for some writers, transposed memories of voyages both interior and across time's span. Think of Wordsworth, seemingly cursed with total recall, or Whitman with his barbaric yawps about Brooklyn and the Union dead. Or consider Virginia Hamilton Adair, whose Ants on the Melon (Random House; 158 pages; $21) may prove to be the year's finest volume of verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: ELEGANT FIZZ BY A POETS' POET | 5/27/1996 | See Source »

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