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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have followed the debate about universal key card access with interest for some time now. I appreciate both sides of this debate, and personally have not come to any firmly held conclusion. I continue to listen closely to the arguments, to try to understand how the proponents and opponents of this proposal have come to their positions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Simplifies Key Card Access | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...understand that we were made an example of," said the student who did not purchase the alcohol. "I'm just not a real fan of laws. If there's a problem, [the system] just throws a bunch of laws...

Author: By Rebecca A. Butcher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-Years Jailed on Alcohol Purchase Charges | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...visiting, why I was going there and why I couldn't get in. He went on to tell me that if the number was disconnected then the students I was looking for weren't there and I should not be trying to gain access to their room. I would understand this tirade if I had not been able to prove that I attend school here, but I see no reason for there to be such a distrust of the students within the Harvard community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Incident Reason for Access | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...judge himself. The truth is horrible. It is too much to deal with--that someone could be abusive intentionally and, above all, to a baby. You can give excuses for this behavior, but it is still murder. No one can imagine what she was thinking--I wish I could understand it. It is nothing a normal person would do. And it was not a one-time event. She is also responsible for his broken arm. It makes me wonder what else she did to him that didn't leave a mark. This was no accident--a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ONE MOTHER'S STORY | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...young pilots had spent hours over midnight rations ("midrats") picking the brains of the two senior aviators in the squadron who flew into Iraq the first harrowing night of Desert Storm in 1991. "Everybody on the ship is prepared," McLaughlin says. "We all understand our role here as instruments of policy--gunboat diplomacy. Now it's like the old adage, 'Put me in the game, coach.'" The Nimitz's fighter pilots had devoted two weeks to poring over secret lists of targets in Iraq, according to Pentagon officials. The strikes, by Navy and Air Force jets as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: READY FOR THE FIRST SHOTS | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

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