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...United States, in spite of the universalization of a human rights culture, erected a grid which in inapplicable across other cultures? Not all forms of democracy are successfully exportable...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: One Billion Served? | 3/22/1994 | See Source »

...play, yet it leaves one aching for all that it could have been. Forced jokes about pregnancy and little speeches about women's lib are nothing more than tokens if they are spoken by the same cliched female characters we have become accustomed to. In spite of Jones' solid performance and the riotous supporting cast, director Kwatinetz fails to overcome the limitations ill-thought conception...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: Female Odd Couple a Weaker Set | 3/17/1994 | See Source »

...house committee vote came in spite of a poll of North House residents showing overwhelming support for installing cable in one of the house's common rooms. The poll found that 118 out of 189 students were in favor of spending $140 to have cable for the rest of the semester...

Author: By Dov P. Grossman, | Title: North House Residents Raise Money for Cable | 3/16/1994 | See Source »

...imagine either Jimmy Stewart or Eddie Bracken in the part, but Robbins has a tricky modernist charm all his own. And you can just as easily imagine Edward Arnold as the evil genius of the board of directors, Sidney J. Mussburger, although Paul Newman brings a sprightly spite to the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Half-Baked in Corporate Hell | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...economy's strongest performance in nearly a decade. Commerce Department officials attributed the good news to a jump in U.S. exports, which rose by $2 billion in December. In other good news, the nation's unemployment rate dropped a surprising two-tenths of a percent in February, in spite of frigid weather in the Midwest and Northeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week February 27 - March 5 | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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