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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With rocks crashing through his windows, an iron spike punching holes through his kitchen door and a mob outside baying "Burn! Burn!," Philip Lo discovered the meaning of terror last Thursday as he cowered for two hours with his family inside a locked bedroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia Burning | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...SPIKE LEE Jordan's rival for the basketball spotlight may be off court: He Got Game opens to acclaim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...Because once the spirit is gone, there's nogetting it back. And it wouldn't be right foreveryone coming after us to do a terrible thinglike that."CrimsonSarah E. HenricksonTHESE ARE THE PEOPLE IN YOURNEIGHBORHOOD: Starting with the upper-leftand moving clockwise, here is: Spike the femalecat of House of Sarah Books, William Barbour,co-owner of both House of Sarah Books and Spikethe cat, Mary Femia consulting pharmacist RobertSkenderian of Skenderian Apothecary, and JohnCuono of East Boston, friend of Maria Femia...

Author: By James P. Mcfadden, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Street: Memorial of City's Past | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

...sudden pulse or electromagnetic spike canshort out a wire or...by disrupting electroniccircuits, simply cut off the fuel supply or makethe flight controls on a plane go dead," Scarrysays," isn't it relevant to determine theelectromagnetic features of the air through whichthe plane aspired to fly that night...

Author: By Christopher M. Kirchhoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Prof. Spins Alternate TWA 800 Theory | 5/6/1998 | See Source »

...comment more critical of contemporary society than of Malcolm X, he labeled the Black Muslim leader as one of the "most fashionable." He wasn't talking about Malcolm X's clothes; he was describing the popularity of "X" hats and shirts in the early 1990s accompanying Spike Lee's powerful movie. One has to agree that most of Mansfield's comments on disagreements between past black leaders were historically accurate, if not insightful...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Give Mansfield More Credit | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

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