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American warplanes were practicing bombing runs from their carriers in the Persian Gulf. In Baghdad the long-suffering citizens of Iraq were resigning themselves to yet another aerial whacking. In Washington, Bill Clinton was staring at a pair of unpleasant options: bomb and be damned, or back down and be...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Deal Work? | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

Few Wigglesworth residents may realize that they have an outpost of literary iconoclasm practically staring them in the face. Despite its cleaner-than-thou aesthetic, the Harvard Bookstore is "definitely not" part of a chain, according to an offended representative at the store's information desk. As cool as they...

Author: By Micaela K. Root, | Title: Beyond the Coop | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

We might be able to attribute the pitfalls of segregating history to a necessary cost, arguing, as my father would, that Black History Month is something to work with in the meantime, until society is ready to integrate black history and American history. Yet there is something more that we...

Author: By Carine M. Williams, | Title: Splitting History | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

While the rest of the world was wringing its hands over the remote threat from such exotics as Ebola and hantavirus, the health officials were busy staring down a far more likely global disaster and produced a closely held Pandemic Planning Document. In the course of their meetings, the planners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flu Hunters | 2/23/1998 | See Source »

Ninety minutes later, minus three minutes, I'm standing in subzero conditions outside Holden Chapel. I shake off my jacket and yank off my shorts, and the canvas is unveiled to a motley audience of screaming, shivering students in several stages of undress. Most are too busy to notice me...

Author: By Joel B. Pollak, | Title: Running Proud | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

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