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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...quite express. Hillary sometimes can't help intimidating them. At a senior citizens' center in Utica, a teacher told her that the school district's resources for disabled students are spread too thin because of a federal decree that disabled students be mainstreamed, not put in special schools. Hillary corrected her. They can be mainstreamed, she said, but still concentrated in specific schools, "so you have a whole row of wheelchairs, not just one or two." The teacher hung her head. "I apologize; we do that," she said. Bill would have salved her ego. Hillary asked for another question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York State Of Mine | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...trained the hit man. At times, he says, he imagines himself sitting next to the killer, checking his technique as he carries out the hit. Alexei--a pseudonym--is still in his 30s and was until a few years ago a senior officer in the Spetsnaz, the secret Russian special-forces units modeled on the U.S. Delta Force. When it comes to killing, Alexei knows of what he speaks: he was a specialist in the "physical elimination" of adversaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sinister Force | 7/19/1999 | See Source »

...recalled a special meeting convened by then Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky, where Dreben--a key participant in the meeting--did not show up until the meeting was already well underway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Philosophy Professor Dies at Age 71 | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

Unlike Sofen, I find nothing alarming about the fact that the museum contained a "special room" for Jefferson Davis or "still-polished Confederate weapons." Sofen complains that these artifacts made the New South he'd read so much about in magazines "seem worlds away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters to the Editor | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

Unlike Sofen, I find nothing alarming about the fact that the museum contained a "special room" for Jefferson Davis or "still-polished Confederate weapons." Sofen complains that these artifacts made the New South he'd read so much about in magazines "seem worlds away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Southern Civil War Museums Shouldn't Reflect Northern Bias | 7/16/1999 | See Source »

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