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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argued, taught students to fly only straight and level, and didn't teach cadets the building blocks of military flying, including a dizzying array of loops, rolls and spins. With the T-3, the Air Force could offer what it called an "enhanced flight-screening program," which could pinpoint "those cadets who have the basic aptitude to become Air Force pilots." McPeak encouraged his service to buy a trainer that could spin, the wing tips tracing a circle after the plane has lost, at least temporarily, its ability to remain aloft. It is a maneuver so dangerous that Air Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Deadly Trainer | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...keep you busy. Science fiction meets wacky social satire? Rent Sleeper. Dead-on, perfect drama? Crimes and Misdemeanors and Husbands and Wives are a sure shot. Allen's even made better films in Harry's own kind-of-autobiographical-but-think-again vein: for an alternately funny and moving spin on Woody's artistic and personal angst, see Stardust Memories. Show up to Deconstructing Harry if you must (I know no amount of negative press could keep me away from a Woody Allen film), but know that he has done better, and hope that he will again. And soon

Author: By Jordan I. Fox, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deconstructing Allen's 'Harry' | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...from pre-recorded DATs, which the musicians played over. Technical skill, however, is not how the virtue of Moby's music should be judged. Moby operates on a more directly emotional level. His goal is simply to induce euphoria, which he does with ease by putting a very human spin on the music...

Author: By Dan Visel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Punk on Ecstasy | 1/9/1998 | See Source »

...Daily Spin "I told Jerry he ought to fire the whole damn bunch of us." -- A brutally honest Switzer while still coach of the Cowboys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 1/8/1998 | See Source »

...Daily Spin "Girls of 12,13 are falling pregnant. If girls commit suicide because of the virginity tests, they would have committed suicide anyway. It is not that important." -- Isilay Saygin, Turkey's cabinet minister in charge of women and family affairs, defending "virginity tests" after five teenage girls swallowed rat poison rather than submit to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Front Page | 1/8/1998 | See Source »

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