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PoliticsJune 13, 2001
Star Wars Foes Hit DC
The two sisters from the Our Lady of Angels convent had driven down from Pennsylvania with a message for their Congressman: Say no to Star Wars. It was proving a tough sell.
Matt Bivens
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PoliticsJune 7, 2001
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PoliticsJune 5, 2001
Harvard’s ‘Fitting Choice’
On July 1 Larry Summers–the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under President Clinton–takes over as president of Harvard University.
Matt Bivens
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Regions and CountriesSeptember 16, 1999
Laundering Yeltsin
The Russian Foreign Minister says it’s an American plot to keep Russia weak. The head of the KGB-successor agency offers that same conviction in a formal briefing to President Boris Yeltsin.
Matt Bivens
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