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...Although Sawiris has always been able to rely on family money, his line to international success has not been entirely straight. Having overextended its mobile network in the late '90s, the firm ran into financial problems in 2001 as the worldwide demand for telecommunications dried up. Sawiris had to sell off assets, including a valuable franchise in Jordan, to pay down debts. In the process, he got support from an unusual business source: Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader...
Ladies and gentlemen, the Billboard Top 10 Hot Singles chart from ten years ago reveals that we, as a people, were listening to some truly crap music in the mid-’90s. There were a few exceptions, but the airwaves were mostly polluted with the desiccated husks of horrifically un-sexy R&B and dance tracks. Step inside the Way-Back Machine, and I’ll show you what I mean...
...expansion that continued through the postwar years until it was checked by the resurrection of dominant pitching in the ’60s and ’70s. The uneasy truce of the ’80s was shattered in the early ’90s, when the greatest period of home run tyranny began. How can one tell that the tide is now turning, that the precession of the baseball equinoxes has reached another critical point of transition...
...early 1989. Then on residencies at the University of Tasmania's School of Art, all three would settle permanently in Australia after Tiananmen Square, their causes helped by lobbying from the former cultural attach? to Beijing, Nicholas Jose. But while they exhibited in group shows together in the early '90s, only Guan Wei was picked up by an Australian commercial gallery. As it transpires, going it alone without a dealer has paid off handsomely for the brothers. "They do find it very easy to get in touch with museums, where their pieces are mainly collected," explains curator Binghui, "so they...
Meanwhile, Coulter had emerged as a star in the 24-hour news culture that flowered in the mid-'90s. In 1995, giddy after Republicans took Congress for the first time in 40 years, she had moved from an anonymous corporate-law job in Manhattan to the Washington office of a freshman Republican Senator, Spencer Abraham. Flirty and quick-witted and fun--ex-conservative David Brock says in his book Blinded by the Right that "Ann seemed to live on nothing but chardonnay and cigarettes"--Coulter charmed both Democrats and Republicans. She already knew (or had dated) many young conservatives...