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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pose of excess--too much of his work being merely a sort of riot against normality. Podhoretz stood up for Mailer after the novelist stabbed his wife Adele in the course of a fight at a party in 1959, but the two men parted company at last because they wound up on different sides of too many cultural and ideological barricades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Settling Old Scores | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...Laura and Jonathan, both current first-years, met in eighth grade at a summer program for gifted youth. Even though the program was only a week long, they hit it off and wound up exchanging handwritten letters the rest of the summer, but eventually fell out of touch. Three years later, by some trick of fate, they showed up for the same spring break tour of Harvard...

Author: By Terry E-E Chang, | Title: Logging on for Love | 2/11/1999 | See Source »

From that storied past, I've come to know the Knicks of Charles Smith, Greg Anthony and Don Nelson. I have a war wound from the crumbling ending of every playoff series since I hit puberty--Smith's missed lay-ups against Chicago, John Starks's 2-of-18 debacle in Houston, Patrick Ewing's bricked runner against Indiana...

Author: By Daniel G. Habib, | Title: Bring Back the Lockout! | 2/10/1999 | See Source »

...approached the car he was attacked by Cook, and a scuffle ensued. While Faulkner tried to subdue his assailant, Jamal, Cook's brother, approached the scene from across the street and shot Faulkner in the back, at point blank range. As Faulkner fell to the ground, he managed to wound Jamal in the stomach. Jamal then stood over the dying officer, held his gun inches from his face and fired a final, fatal shot...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Execute the Cop Killer | 2/5/1999 | See Source »

...sign that Mexico was reforming its authoritarian democracy. But last week there was at least one reminder of how far the nation has to go. While Raul confronted his verdict in a prison cell west of Mexico City, 50 miles away, in a prison called Southside, a tightly wound, closely shorn 34-year-old ex-cowboy named Daniel Aguilar Trevino described a Mexican political system that is still dark, unforgiving and sinister. Aguilar is serving a 50-year term for pumping the fatal bullet into Ruiz Massieu's neck from point-blank range. In recent weeks, for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triggerman's Blues | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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