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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current federal law on the subject, written in 1968, says that "hate crimes" must be motivated by prejudice based on race, color, religion or nationality and be committed against someone who is engaged in a federally protected act...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hate Crimes Targeted By New Bill | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...then, people do tend to act funny when the sun comes out again after a drab winter...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Spring Fashions Hit Wintry Cambridge | 4/7/1999 | See Source »

...silver-haired man with the mystique of historical destiny. In a nation searching for a post-cold war identity, the aura served as an express ticket to total power. Conducting a new symphony of ethnic hate, Milosevic stepped into the top slot once occupied by Tito. Virtually his first act was to revoke the autonomy Tito had granted to the Albanians in Kosovo. Playing up nationalist passions, Milosevic helped ignite full-scale ethnic rivalry among some of the country's other republics. During that period, even the intellectual elite supported his nationalist euphoria. But once he had used them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethnic Cleanser | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...practical reasons to do so. This applies to victims of crimes as well as to those who must deal with the slings and arrows of more common misfortunes--unfaithfulness, betrayal, ungratefulness and mere insult. In the past two years, scientists and sociologists have begun to extract forgiveness and the act of forgiving from the confines of the confessional, transforming it into the subject of quantifiable research. In one case, they have even systemized it as a 20-part "intervention" that they claim can be used to treat a number of anger-related ills in a totally secular context. In short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should All Be Forgiven? | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...please). You'll get about 30,000 hits. It turns out you can "enquire" about nearly anything online these days, from used Harley Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia ("Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!"), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore, to a company that specializes in "pet moving." Enquire about buying industrial-age nuts and bolts from "the Bolt Boys" in South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Network Designer Tim Berners-Lee | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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