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...House officials say they have no evidencethat giving has slowed in the past year. But asRadcliffe enters the last year of its $100 millioncampaign, any slowdown could threaten the 2000goal...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Radcliffe Still Uncertain One Year Later | 4/6/1999 | See Source »

...last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity"), an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...lives in the Tiger's Den, a fortified five-acre compound half an hour's drive from the capital, Phnom Penh. There, during the sporadic outbursts of fighting that threaten his rule, he retreats to his emergency war room, a small building with dark glass windows and aerials on the roof. Inside is a small bedroom. "You see this?" he asks, pointing to a closet with a mirror on the front. "Inside, there is a secret trapdoor into the basement. When you are a soldier, you have to know the ways of escape." He regrets he cannot go to restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cambodia: Survival of the Paranoid | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...study, conducted by Illinois psychologist Laurie Kramer and researcher Lisa Perozynski, identified three main responses parents have when they find their children engaged in a verbal or physical fight: step in and talk it through with the children, threaten or admonish the children, or do nothing at all. As a group, both mothers and fathers believed that helping children resolve conflicts worked best in addressing the immediate problem. Yet when they examined 88 two-parent families with one child 3 to 5 years old and a second child two to four years older, Kramer and Perozynski found that parents were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctant Referees | 3/22/1999 | See Source »

...scares people out of exercising what is currently a constitutional right. If you don't agree with abortion, that's fine. If you think it's wrong, that's your right. But don't tell me that your right to free speech enables you to harass, intimidate, and tacitly threaten with violence other individuals in society who are attempting to exercise their own rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Some Abortion Protestors Overstep Free Speech Bounds | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

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