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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Yet Gandhi is that rare great man held in universal esteem, a figure lifted from history to moral icon. The fundamental message of his transcendent personality persists. He stamped his ideas on history, igniting three of the century's great revolutions--against colonialism, racism, violence. His concept of nonviolent resistance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

At this point, that seems to be almost what it would take. An attempt to find the source of just three of the thousands of items for sale stamped with the Harvard logo demonstrates how hard it is to trace their origins when companies don't specify their factory locations...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tracing the Source of Apparel | 11/16/1999 | See Source »

"It's a kind of American verismo," Bolcom says of View, using the Italian term for such popular slice-of-life operas as Puccini's La Boheme and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. Sure enough, the tale of Eddie Carbone (baritone Kim Josephson), a middle-aged longshoreman who lusts after his young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doo-Wop And Knife Fights | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

In his office, wireless telephones sit next to socialist reviews. Six green leather chairs (the luxurious, deep kind that Mao always preferred) rest on yellowed linoleum floors, backed by off-blue walls. On his bookshelf, sandwiched between Chinese works on Marx, are two slim English volumes on Business Cycles. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Search For Its Soul | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Why? A New York Post columnist complained shrilly that Christians, in death, get short shrift. "To so many media figures, Christians ? specifically evangelicals, orthodox Catholics and others who believe in traditional Judeo-Christian moral teaching ?- are not victims, but victimizers," wrote the columnist, Rod Dreher. "If Larry Gene Ashbrook, guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floyd and Ft. Worth: A Tale of Two Stories | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

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