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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, some members of the union said they are not pleased with the contract, but accepted it because they saw it as the University's final offer. The contract was agreed upon with the University on June 23 after two days of intense final discussion...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guards Likely to Approve Deal With University | 7/2/1999 | See Source »

...security guard driving to work comes upon the scene and opens fire on the shooter as Atkinson's car rolls ahead aimlessly and plows into a utility pole. The guard, a red-haired, 300-lb. Irishman named Rory Vertigan, wings the shooter, who drops the Lincoln into reverse, slams into Vertigan's car and comes out flashing metal. Vertigan, his gun empty, rushes the driver, rips his gun away, throws him to the pavement and hands the weapon to another civilian just on the scene, ordering him to stand watch while Vertigan rushes to Atkinson and sees he has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...retraces Atkinson's route, wheeling through the last moments of his life, Davila comes upon the shrine where the officer died. Davila had tried, in his quiet way, to live beyond the stereotypes that divide police and community, white and Hispanic. And now there were people out there stirring it up, the vultures and hacks, politicizing Atkinson's death before he was in the ground. At the spot where the afternoon sun still draws a cross on the wall, Davila's spirit breaks again. "You had people calling the radio talk shows to take their shots. It started with illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...White House spin doctors, eager to proclaim victory for a "Clinton Doctrine" of using limited military force to achieve limited goals. No, say Western military analysts surveying the bomb damage now that the dust has settled. Monday?s New York Times reports that NATO forces have discovered, upon entering Kosovo and observing the Serb withdrawal, that the damage inflicted on the Yugoslav army was considerably less than had been initially claimed by the alliance. "NATO hit a lot of dummy and deception targets," a former alliance commander was quoted as telling European diplomats. Western officers found very few damaged tanks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milosevic's Famous Cardboard Tank Trick | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...been a life of change for this institution more than most," she said. "This was the fulfillment of a 20-year relationship [since the 1977 articulation of the Harvard-Radcliffe alliance]...Now we go forth with a new mission built upon...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wilson, Rudenstine Reassure Alumnae | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

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