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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, DiMaio said, Italy has become a hub for immigrants from North Africa, South America and Eastern Europe...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Immigrant Culture Enriches Italian Literature | 3/17/1999 | See Source »

...company will serve 20 million households and hold $180 billion in assets, making it the eighth largest bank in America, according to BankBoston officials...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: No Change From Bank Merger Till 2000 | 3/16/1999 | See Source »

...Percentage of all TV-watching households in America that were tuned to the Barbara Walters interview with Monica Lewinsky last Wednesday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers: Mar. 15, 1999 | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...that stealing music and video games has become routine, pirates are closing in on a new target: feature films. Some 200 websites offer illegal copies of popular movies such as Saving Private Ryan and Shakespeare in Love, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. The images are often blurred and jerky. And downloading them onto your computer is a federal felony. But violators are hard to catch and the films are free, so they're finding an audience. "Online movie piracy is a cancer in the belly of our business," frets M.P.A.A. president Jack Valenti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Next on the Net: Pirated Movies | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

...relationship with Henry Kissinger is not as tantalizing as America's with Monica, but it's worth noting in light of this week's excerpt of his new book. He called me a few months ago, which was a bit unexpected since he'd quit speaking to me in 1992, when I wrote a biography of him. "Well, Walter," he said, in his distinctive rumble, "even the Thirty Years' War had to end at some point." (He did allow that his loyal wife was more partial to the Hundred Years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Personalities Make History | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

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