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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSTON--On a night in late November 1976, a few days after a disappointing loss in The Game, about 16 football players followed a team dinner at the Harvard Club with an outing to the Naked-I lounge, where they spent the wee hours of the morning watching female exotic dancers bare their bodies for cash...

Author: By Jason T. Benowitz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Boston Cleans Up 'Combat Zone' | 3/18/1998 | See Source »

...Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, an early black supporter of Clinton's, and read The Power Game: How Washington Works by Hedrick Smith. Says Thompson: "The areas of my ignorance are vast and arid. I read Politics for Dummies; I saw the documentary The War Room; and I learned a wee bit about women in American politics. It's impressive what women can do, but it's also depressing that the ultimate glass ceiling is First Lady...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...orange trees lining the streets and bottles of red wine at every meal. The country closed down from two to five daily as everyone went home for a leisurely midday meal. The nightlife didn't get underway until midnight, and the streets were choked with party-goers until the wee hours of the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An 'American' Girl | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

...often that the normally loquacious RICHARD HOLBROOKE becomes press shy. But in discussing the memo that he, as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, wrote justifying Democratic contributor LARRY LAWRENCE's burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Holbrooke is a wee bit defensive. All the evidence now seems to suggest that Lawrence, a former ambassador to Switzerland, fabricated his supposed World War II Merchant Marine service and the German torpedo that allegedly ripped open his vessel, tossing him into the drink. Says a source close to Holbrooke: "When someone tells you about something that happened to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT--THEY TEND TO EXAGGERATE | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...trot over to the superstore and check the register. Perhaps this does make Christmas shopping for the kiddies a piece of fruitcake, but we think some-thing of the spirit of holiday gift-giving is lost in the process. After all, when we at Dartboard were wee tots eagerly awaiting Christmas morn, our biggest fear was bags of switches and ashes, not that we wouldn't get every last gift on our list...

Author: By Olivia Ralston, | Title: SAVING THE TOYS 'R' US KIDS | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

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