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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Student Council also created several programs to help war-torn Europe reconstruct its cultural life. The year 1948 marked the second year of the Salzburg Seminar, a school of American culture and civilization...

Author: By Caitlin E. Anderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: International Issues Dominate Student Debate | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

...Jimmy Carter. Buried, after one term, in the Ronald Reagan landslide of 1980, widely scorned as the micromanager of malaise held hostage by the Ayatullah, Carter in his post-White House incarnation performed a cunning reversal. An engineer by training, he did not so much reinvent himself as reconstruct, in another dimension, the job from which the American people had fired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lives Of The Saint | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

...were absolutely right). The radicals were happy because in their opinion he was an obstacle to the republics' independence and too cautious in enacting economic reforms. (They too were correct.) This man with the stain on his forehead attempted simultaneously to contain and transform the country, to destroy and reconstruct, right on the spot. One can be Hercules and clean the Augean stable. One can be Atlas and hold up the heavenly vault. But no one has ever succeeded in combining the two roles. Surgery was demanded of Gorbachev, but angry shouts broke out whenever he reached for the scalpel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mikhail Gorbachev | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...carrot is Western aid to help reconstruct the war-torn region, and the long-term prospect of some form of involvement in the EU. The stick: The U.S. State Department today renewed sanctions against Belgrade, and warned President Milosevic that further repression of Albanians would have the by-now-familiar ?most severe consequences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belgrade Warned Over Albanians | 3/6/1998 | See Source »

...detective work will get me to reveal why. Keep me at bay with a fireplace poker until you can get close enough to the door to leave." Men, in turn, should give some sort of clear signal when others are talking about relationships and they are actually trying to reconstruct the plot of an episode of Baywatch ("Hobie falls in a well") in their head. On the whole, International Signs make the world a better place. Remember that the next time you see a choking Liechtenstinian...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: The Universal Language | 2/18/1998 | See Source »

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