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...occasional beach ball, water balloon, and crowd-surfer passed overhead, undergrads in plastic ponchoes sang and danced Saturday in a muddy Tercentenary Theater to ’90s hits such as “Semi-Charmed Life” and “How’s It Going...
...originally titled “Shut Up and Sing” in reference to the characters’ annoying habit of yelling “shut up!” at the drop of a hat. Maybe some people who graduated from college in the early ’90s really do scream at each other for fun, but the yelling happens to grate on my nerves. The new title certainly isn’t much more appropriate than the old one—the script’s wedding only serves as an excuse to reunite friends in vacationland...
...training and staging area for attacks against Saudi Arabia. That may be a case of history repeating itself - Saudi native Osama bin Laden and other Arabs who had participated in the Afghanistan jihad of the '80s later returned to their home countries to fight the authorities during the '90s. One cell of 59 Saudis and non-Saudis sent members to "external training camps" to "participate in regional conflicts" - a reference to Iraq, according to Saudi sources - with the aim of facilitating "their return to the Kingdom to carry out their criminal plans." Another cell was actually formed abroad with...
...lunch period to read “The Bell Jar” and pity myself had to come to an end. Which is why I’m kind of confused—3EB? This millenium? Really? Like, they’re totally a good band and all (Mid-90s Locution Alert: “…NOT”). And I admire lead singer Stephan Jenkins’ long-term dedication to being an unrepentant rock star diva, even though he’s not actually a rock star anymore. But I’ve always thought that...
...years now, a lot of people have been saying that property is a bubble; that a crackdown is coming; and that widespread economic pain would ensue when it did. It it hasn't' happened yet, but if it does, you'll know it. In the first part of the '90s, when China slowed sharply, few people in the outside world cared much. That is not true now. A hard landing this time will be hard on everyone...