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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when you're poor and black and accused, real friends can't be found in a purple dinosaur or anywhere else in TV land. Indeed, for the past year his best friend has been the stately gentleman sitting quietly in the living room wearing a starched white shirt, gray suit and cowboy boots. He is lawyer R. Eugene Pincham, 73. The kid, overwhelmed of late with so many new names and faces to remember, refers to his pal and counsel simply as the black Power Ranger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Justice Minus Joy | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

...hand over mine first. In the middle of the exchange, Aaron has a brainstorm. He decides to overwhelm the inspector with a hailstorm of paperwork. He tosses out his driver's license, his school ID, his credit cards, even his USTA membership card from the 10th grade. Josh follows suit, emptying his wallet on the unsuspecting bouncer. The line begins to back up. People start shouting. The bouncer panics. He shoves all of our IDs back at us and slaps on entry-bands. We're in. We've crossed the Rubicon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Fame in the Name | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

...Vedica Jain followed suit, losing to Brown's Julia Martynova...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Hopes to Clinch Ivy | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...Vedica Jain followed suit, losing to Brown's Julia Martynova in straight sets...

Author: By Jennifer L. Sullivan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Tennis Wants Sole Possession of Ivy Title | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...have proved myself ungifted in every athletic endeavor, and yet there's a part of me that watches pro sports and thinks, "I could have caught that." It was during one of those moments that I asked the people at the NHL to suit me up in goalie pads and let a player take slap shots on me. The strangest part was not that they said yes but that they required me to sign absolutely no legal waivers. This is a tough sport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Manliest Moment | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

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