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Bass, who covered the Balkans in the early '90s, also said past experience with regional conflicts "may have put [the U.S.] on a hair trigger...

Author: By Brady R. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Debate Kosovo Media Coverage | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

...part of his wonderfully energetic stage performance. The crowd went quiet when he started whimpering a sad story about walking in on his mother with a gun in his hand. He then hilariously broke the silence with "Mama, just killed a man/Put a gun against his head/Pulled my trigger now he's dead," the opening lyrics of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody." A testament to Walker's odd charisma: he immediately entertained even the cold and inattentive audience in the Paradise that night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marvelous3 Goes to the Ball, And Runs Away With It | 3/5/1999 | See Source »

...Pentagon sent a letter to HLS last fall claiming HLS policies should trigger a funding loss under the Solomon amendment, but after explaining its policy to the Defense Department, HLS was let off the hook, Donahue said...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frank Proposes Bill to Preserve Law School Aid | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

...Pentagon sent a letter to HLS last fall claiming HLS policies should trigger a funding loss under the Solomon Amendment, but after explaining its policy to the Defense Department, HLS was let off the hook, Donahue said...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Frank Proposes Bill to Safeguard Law School Aid | 3/3/1999 | See Source »

...countries to open up to each other a bit, and that diplomacy, combined with the sobering possibility of nuclear disaster, may have impressed the two traditional enemies to reassess how they deal with each other. "The biggest fear on the subcontinent," says McAllister, "has always been the hair-trigger nature of the enmity between India and Pakistan: The smallest slight always held the potential to escalate into all-out war." Now, he says, the two countries seem to have "loosened the rope of their relationship a bit"---and thus given themselves, and the rest of the world, more time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India and Pakistan: Let's Talk for a Change | 2/22/1999 | See Source »

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