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...California's $38 billion deficit, the largest state shortfall in history, a number larger than the entire budget of all but one other state (New York). Much of the deficit is due to the collapse of the dot-com universe, which powered the state's economy in the '90s, and Davis can hardly be blamed for that. On the other hand, he was not exactly forthright about how large the deficit was going to be. In any case, Californians want a target for their fiscal pain and frustration, and Davis has become the state insignia for economic ineptitude...
...sources of crime as well as punish it, swoon over him. "He has a track record going back years of working toward crime prevention by working in the community," says Catherine Coles, a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government who studied Earle's office in the '90s...
Pakistan is all too familiar with sectarian violence, but the massacre in Quetta's Ishnam Asheri mosque, the worst act of its kind since the mid-'90s, was horrifying even by South Asia's gruesome standards. Thousands of worshipers were performing their Friday prayers when two gunmen burst in and fired into the crowd for 10 minutes, pausing only to reload. Outside the mosque, a third man, wired with explosives, walked into a cluster of worshipers and blew himself up. By the time police dispatched the gunmen, 47 people were dead and 65 wounded. Police defused two more bombs that...
...Imperceptibly, radio was changing from a tool of power to a tool of the people. Nowhere was the shift more apparent than in Taiwan in the mid-'90s, when the then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) depended on an underground station called Greenpeace to broadcast its samizdat message. (The station has no relationship with the environmental group of the same name.) On Greenpeace's unfettered airwaves, citizens could express proindependence views and criticize the then ruling Kuomintang (KMT). Many supporters called in at night, taking care to keep the lights off at home lest their neighbors suspect they...
...Phair has a long creative life ahead of her. But she already knows at least three words that will appear in the first paragraph of her obituary: Exile in Guyville. The 1993 album was the definitive feminist-indie-rock manifesto and one of the most influential discs of the '90s. On classics like Flower, Phair used her low, wry voice to bridge Gloria Steinem and Candace Bushnell and capture the dynamics of being a thinking woman who likes sex. Guyville didn't sell much, but it cleared an airstrip for everyone from Alanis Morissette to Lauryn Hill and created...