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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...ethnic patchwork of a colony, knew too well the perils of Burma's tribal politics. They resorted to divide-and-conquer schemes, much as the current military regime has done. Intense negotiations by the junta led to many ethnic insurgencies laying down their guns in the 1980s and '90s - and opened up a vast territory for resource exploitation. But as the inequities between the Burmese majority and the tribal groups - the Arakanese, the Shan, the Kachin, the Karen, the Mon, the Wa and the Chin, to name a few - yawns ever wider, the chance of renewed armed conflict grows stronger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...evidently Roberts practices what she preaches. The '90s box-office queen has a life, including a husband who works in Hollywood (but below the line), three kids and a solar-powered house. With her latest choice of roles, she's aiming not just higher but also smarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Julia Roberts Still Queen of the Box Office? | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...wife’s administrative experience will be brought to bear as House Masters. And although the two are only the second House Master appointments from the Law School, Sullivan said they have had broad exposure to undergraduate life.While the couple was dating in the early 90s, Sullivan interacted with the undergraduate community as a resident tutor in Leverett House. When he returned to the Law School as a professor, he rekindled his connection to House life as a member of the Lowell House Senior Common Room.“My view is that it starts with a level...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Historic Picks To Step in at Winthrop | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...hearing people say in the dining halls, “The CEB is so retarded.”“There’s the misconception that CEB lives under a rock—‘does CEB have an affinity for washed-up ’90s bands?’ We’re in the same boat as you guys,” he said.Yet McFadden maintained that they learn from the criticism and that he doesn’t take the flak personally. “That’s sort of what?...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yardfest, Unfenced | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...tradition of online literature in China, Hou and other writers say, goes back to the mid-'90s, when the bulletin-board system, or BBS, first appeared on the Chinese Internet as a platform to share opinions and in many cases literary creations. "I still recall my astonishment when I read my first online novel some 15 years ago on a BBS," says Zhang Kangkang, a renowned novelist and vice chairwoman of the Chinese Writers Association. "It was then that I realized how serious and creative the so-called online literature can be." Although largely substituted now by social-networking sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avoiding Censors, Chinese Authors Go Online | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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