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...University’s choice, however, and the Secretary-General’s career, to be sure, does contain some troubling missteps. Kofi Annan and the U.N.’s peacekeepers have been painfully absent from some of the bloodiest conflicts of the ’90s. The political genocides that claimed one million lives in Rwanda in 1994 and more than 7000 lives in Srebrenica in 1995 are widely recognized to be the result of U.N. peacekeeping failures, and Annan has admitted as much publicly. More recently, evidence of corruption and mismanagement in the U.N.-administered Iraqi...
Clearly, Tomassoni had a great run in the early ‘90s. Yet his teams quickly went on a downward spiral. After the ‘94 campaign, Tomassoni’s squads posted five straight non-winning seasons, a first in Harvard men’s hockey history. Still, Tomassoni was not dismissed...
Hollywood preview audiences cheer when his name sprawls across the screen. People ask for his autograph in airports. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has become the outsize star of his own Hollywood story. His hip, high-voltage action films of the '90s (Con Air, Bad Boys, Armageddon) established a new style for the Hollywood blockbuster and helped make superstars of Ben Affleck, Nicolas Cage and Will Smith. Last year, with Pirates of the Caribbean, he even managed to mainstream reluctant celebrity Johnny Depp. Rare in the entertainment world, he has been able to transfer his instinct for the mass audience from movies...
When asked about the potential effect hip-hop can have on society, Gab mentioned that “music has always had that role, especially hip-hop. Look back to the early 90s when you had popular rap artists like Public Enemy and N.W.A. pushing these really political messages.” He went on to claim that in today’s more materially-oriented scene, “the youth look to rappers” and often try to follow their example, giving the artists a responsibility to send the right signals to young...
...first-rate. In the 14th annual Airline Quality Rating study, JetBlue and two other budget carriers, Southwest and America West, took three of the four top slots. Fourteen airlines were evaluated on services like on-time arrivals, based on data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. "In the late '90s, the big airlines said to their customers, 'You have to be a premier traveler or we're not going to care about you much,'" says Wichita State marketing professor Dean Headley, who co-authored this year's report with Brent Bowen of the University of Nebraska. "[No-frills carriers] told...