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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...working part of Hillary's working vacation will be this week, when she retreats to the Finger Lakes, where voters who don't use summer as a verb are known to congregate. For months, Hillary debated whether she should spend her entire vacation upstate and unchic to convince Empire State voters that she's no carpetbagger. Remember how former adviser Dick Morris persuaded the pair four years ago to give up their beloved Vineyard because polling found it insufficiently American? Enough with the sailboats and James Taylor crooning You've Got a Friend, he told them. The swing voter wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunny Days Are Here Again | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...will be put back together just as badly. "This is Turkey," Turks like to say with a shrug, to explain away such absurdities. This time, however, the authorities say they will not make the old mistakes. And Turkey's people, shaken out of their traditional deference to the state, are determined not to let their leaders backslide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Turkey: Seeking Survival and More | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...longstanding conspiracy sentences of the 16 members of the group, the Armed Forces of National Liberation, known by its Spanish acronym, FALN. But it's not clear what if any political advantage there is to be gained by pushing for clemency. The 1.3 million Puerto Ricans in New York State remain deeply divided on the issue of independence for the island, not to mention the means to achieve it. At the same time, the whole thing reinforces the message to New Yorkers that Hillary may never be quite so useful to them as she is right now. After...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Make Up Your Mind, Hillary | 9/5/1999 | See Source »

Geronimo ju Jaga (Pratt), America's foremost class-war prisoner, has endured 23 years of California prison hell. He was framed in the early 1970s for a murder the state knows he didn't commit. A former leader of the Black Panther Party, Geronimo was a named target of the FBI's vicious COINTELPRO campaign against black activist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: U.S. Government Unjustly Imprisons Black Activist | 9/4/1999 | See Source »

...just another stall tactic by the prosecution. When poor Mrs. Sheppard is unearthed ? no date has yet been set ? what clues will her body yield? Not much, probably. She may help investigators clarify their picture of the crime scene, or indeed help keep Sam Sheppard?s son in a state of frustration for a few more years. Unless she?s got some bushy hair pinched between her thumb and forefinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'The Fugitive, Part 3: Exhuming Mrs. Kimble' | 8/31/1999 | See Source »

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