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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...local mosque, Hakim Hasbulla, 48, tried to hold the mob back, and a TIME correspondent attempted to plead for the man, but the two dozen attackers were beyond reason. Everyone wanted to get in a kick or a cut--it was a badge of pride to have taken part. "I don't agree with this," said Hasbulla immediately afterward, still shaking...
While specialty stores have taken the lead in making shopping more of an adventure, the old-line department stores are getting the idea too. A $10 million overhaul under way at Marshall Field's Chicago flagship will result in the addition of a mini-museum paying homage to the city and detailing the store's long history. Among the other new features: a visitor's center, where a concierge will arrange theater tickets for shoppers, and a business center, where customers can send faxes, catch up with CNN or get their shoes shined...
...wayward flock. Result: a season thus far without incident. Carter, whose drug problems got him waived from the Eagles, has become a team role model and a born-again Christian. Even Green, who was charged with sexual harassment in 1995 (the charges were later dismissed), says he has taken to cleaner living and spending more time in prayer...
...social creatures, not born administrators. It's nicely P.C. to think of God as female, but no woman would have thrown Lucifer out of heaven; she would have offered him a desk job. Had Lucifer been a woman, she would have dropped all that "myself am hell" business and taken...
After studying in Switzerland and Germany, the cosmopolitan young Morgan arrived on Wall Street in 1857, serving as agent for his father Junius Spencer Morgan, who had taken over a London merchant bank. Though Pierpont participated in refinancing the Civil War debt in the 1870s, he acquired true imperial status in underwriting America's railroads...