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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, it's not Wilde's sexuality but his "mystery" that Hare says inspired him to write The Judas Kiss. (The play received mixed reviews during its London run.) By bringing a doomed libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry--the outraged, decidedly macho father of Wilde's bratty, poetic young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas--Wilde unleashed the forces that in time consumed him. "There was an element of hubris," says Hare. "He may have thought there wasn't a situation that he couldn't talk himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilde About Oscar | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

Donning a navy blue suit, starched white shirtand tie, Wang sat stiffly between a translator andMerle D. Goldman, an associate of the FairbankCenter and professor at Boston University...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tiananmen's Leader Champions Freedom | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

...move to Energy might suit Richardson?s domestic political ambitions, adds TIME correspondent Douglas Waller, but ?the counter-argument among his aides is that the Energy job requires a lot of unpopular decisions on issues such as nuclear waste.? All that Mike McCurry would offer on the matter yesterday was, ?I haven?t heard the President finalize any recommendations for that cabinet vacancy.? The big tease...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richardson for Energy Secretary? | 4/29/1998 | See Source »

Behind the outstanding performances of LaSovage and Cupp, the rest of the Crimson hitters and pitchers followed suit, and Harvard returned from Ithaca with a perfect 10-0 conference record and the first Ivy Championship in the program's history...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, | Title: ATHLETES OF THE WEEK | 4/28/1998 | See Source »

When he was appointed "special master" last December in the Justice Department's closely watched antitrust suit against Microsoft, Lawrence Lessig expected that by spring he'd be the most important person in the court--the expert telling Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson how to sort through the legal and technological issues underlying the complex case. Instead, he's the one being judged. A federal appeals court will decide this week whether he is, as Microsoft claims, too deeply biased against it to make an impartial recommendation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Bill Gates' Skin | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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