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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...academic side, choose class times wisely. As a general rule, mornings are good, afternoons dangerous and evenings out of the question. Yes, this contradicts conventional wisdom, but playoffs are playoffs...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Setting Your Post-Season Priorities | 10/2/1998 | See Source »

Conventional wisdom has it that the siteselection committee will choose the area the mostpolitically advantageous, and Los Angeles seems tohave the edge...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hub Uses Harvard, Glitz to Entice 2000 Dem. Convention | 10/1/1998 | See Source »

...appear in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Regarded as the most tangible result of Khatami's pledge of greater freedom, the seven-month-old daily attracted a readership of 300,000 but infuriated hard-liners with stories on previously taboo topics, including political dissent, U.S. relations and the wisdom of a military confrontation with neighboring Afghanistan. The shutdown came swiftly after Supreme Leader ALI KHAMENEI's "final notice" to government officials to curtail press freedom. Indefatigable Tous editor MAHMOUD SHAMSOLVAEZIN had managed to get his paper back on the streets after two previous closures, once by changing its original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Supreme Leader Cracks Down on Newspaper | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

Thanks to Garry Wills for a logical lesson in leadership. Let's hope the intelligent Clinton recognizes this wisdom and leads by leaving. STEPHEN H. SMITH Ridgefield, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1998 | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

...only as vacations from movies and motherhood, for her genius is as a singer-entertainer. Midler's vocal voltage and pristine song salesmanship are on display here in tunes by Leonard Cohen, Chuckii Booker, Carole King, Ben Folds--lots of fine folk. Her voice can ache with hard-won wisdom (on the first single, My One True Friend) or smile with the sweet clarity of her Honolulu youth (Gus Kahn's 1925 Ukulele Lady). Songs like Laughing Matters, I'm Beautiful and I'm Hip give the album the sassy intimacy of a pep talk from an old friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bette Midler: Bathhouse Betty | 9/21/1998 | See Source »

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