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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gates said he has not yet discussed with the Gore staff what political role he will take in the next few months. He also said he does not know whether he'll do any traveling to support the vice president's campaign...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates to Advise Gore on Race for Presidency | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...They aren't original. They don't write their own music (Hanson this is not). In fact, they don't even have producers who write songs for them. Get this they only sing ABBA tracks! Hooray! Take Dancing Queen or Mama Mia or Super Trouper: Add in some techno beats, throw in a few trills, make a music video and bam! You're a superstar with an endless catalogue of hits...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Soman's In The [K]now | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...list of novels that it references. The basic plot of Dostoevsky's famous meditation on being and nothingness (long before Sartre took the patent out on those themes) serves as the starting point of the Durang/Innaurato collaboration: four brothers, tempestuous love, life, death, etc, etc. But it doesn't take long to leave Dostoevsky in the dust as Durang and Innaurato jump full force into the whole of literature since the Book of Genesis. Durang has always been something of the Tom Stoppard of absurdist drama, but in The Idiots Karamazov he outdoes himself. Insert famous femme fatale Anas...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Idiots' Guide to Literature | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...Shawn knew each other first. We were roommates in junior year and last year lived off campus. The idea for this band started a little more than a year ago. We had been jamming for a while, and we decided to take this to a greater level, and we thought that David Horn was the perfect addition...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What's My Number? | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

...While it was very clear that action was needed, Washington played a major role in influencing the decision to take no action," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Having just come out of the Somalia debacle, which had been badly managed by both the U.S. and the U.N., Washington didn't want to get involved in another complex conflict in Africa." Of course, while the solutions were complex, the numbers were devastatingly simple: 800,000 people were killed in one month in Rwanda as Hutu mobs butchered their Tutsi neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.N. Rattles Skeletons in Washington's Closet | 12/17/1999 | See Source »

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