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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign national is out of status if, for example, she leaves school for a term and returns to finish the rest of her years at the College, finding that her temporary student visa has expired...

Author: By Marc J.ambinder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Laws Complicate Foreign Students' Lives | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...Harvard especially, we know the value of the ivy closet. Many of us are conservative politically. Many of us believe that getting ahead is most important. A Harvard student may choose not to write a term paper with a queer theme to accommodate a professor's homophobia. A Harvard student may choose tactfully omit a pronoun to avoid revealing the gender of a lover. A Harvard queer knows when and how to pass as straight--we know what to say, how to smile and how to dress. We can slip in and out from subculture to mainstream and back again...

Author: By Diana L. Adair, | Title: The Ivy Closet | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...year into Bill Clinton's second term, and one week after he lost the fight over fast track, it is finally possible to answer a question that has dogged his presidency: Has Clinton created a new centrism within the Democratic Party, or has he killed off the last vestiges of the old centrism he inherited? The answer is yes to both questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHY THE DEMOCRATIC CENTER CAN'T HOLD | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...This time, the idea is "to take a page out of Colin Powell's book and make sure that we really do have the capability to do a decisive job," says Robert Pelletreau, who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs during Clinton's first term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...fact, fighting the Justice rap (federal district court hearings are set for early next month) may be the easy part. Microsoft's long-term problem is the capital's growing perception that the company is bullying competitors and partners alike, abusing the leverage its Windows monopoly gives over a critical industry. It's a mushrooming p.r. cloud that threatens to damage Microsoft both explicitly (if Justice decides to monkey-wrench Gates' Windows 98 plans) and implicitly, by hampering his ability to influence future legislation on such crucial Infobahn issues as copyright protection and encryption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GATES FIGHTS BACK | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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