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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professionally" planned to get two powerful car bombs into both cities and parked near the embassies, and to explode them almost in tandem. They think it would probably have taken "several months" to organize. They suspect the two embassies were chosen because they were "soft": easily accessible buildings in wide-open countries that offered easy entry to people and explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terror In Africa | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...confessions and recollections, one enters the life of every one of the writers, knows each of them intimately, faces their problems and rejoices at the resolutions. Gathering the novel together, Thomas Beller asked each writer to write a story about something that matters to them. The result: a wide-ranging account of contemporary life. Almost as impressive as the sheer variety of topics and the sincerity with which they are presented, is the range of writing styles used to illustrate the points of the essays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor Combines Modern Voices | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

During my first summer here, as part of a small group of entering first-years invited to take summer school classes for free, I spent most of my days wide-eyed and gawking, but happy beyond belief to be rid of my old life. I broke in my first pair of Doc Martens, and nearly broke my smallest toes doing so. For the first (and last) time, I played tag in Harvard Yard, got drenched by the 2 a.m. sprinklers while coming home from the clubs and had a coffee date at Au Bon Pain in which an overhead sparrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...seemed to revel in his dirt as he perched on the wide ledge on the truck's rear. I seemed to be facing a real-live manly man, who was a real cutie in the bargain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...hilarious to watch. Johnson displayed his great versatility as an actor in last spring's Catch 22, and he does so again in Slavs!. Rodent, a stuttering likeness of Nathan Lane, captivates the audience as he slowly transforms from being Popo's measly sidekick into a government official caught wide-eyed in his web of lies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slav-er-iffic! | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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