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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...late 1980s, when the cold war ended and the Western powers that had bankrolled Mobutu as a bulwark against communism informed him that his credit had run dry. In response, the President distanced himself from day-to-day governance, and Zaire's threadbare cohesion started to pull apart. The worst unraveling took place in North and South Kivu provinces, sparking a crisis that bequeathed to Kabila what he likes to call his "bon moment...
Which meant that the 20th century blew it apart. Some indication of the shift can be had by studying the learning curve of Billy Graham. In his 1950 Boston revival, a young Graham was ebulliently specific about the world to come. Heaven, he said, was a place "as real as Los Angeles, London, Algiers or Boston." It was "1,600 miles long, 1,600 miles wide and 1,600 miles high." Once there, "we are going to sit around the fireplace and have parties, and the angels will wait on us, and we'll drive down the golden streets...
...soft words and poetry straight from Foggy Bottom, as he prepared to meet President Jiang Zemin and Premier Li Peng in hopes of building a productive rapport with Deng?s successors. "The landscape of U.S.-China relations is filled with many rivers,? Gore intoned, ?some flowing together, others flowing apart. Such variety befits the interaction of two great nations and civilizations." Translation: the Administration believes it can make more progress with the Chinese on tough political issues such as human rights in private one-on-one meetings than it can through public confrontations on its social and political policies. While...
...their own journeys of exploration and education, both were first released in Europe and both have a thing about Scandinavia and snow. Brian Hall's new coming-of-age epic, The Saskiad, has these things in common with the aforementioned books, but in all important respects it stands completely apart. Hall's book is a pleasurable read, a titillatingly sensual piece of prose and a fascinating intellectual journey...
...their daughter Anna is falling in love with Charles Norden. Their love is mutual, and their relationship passionate. She expects him to propose at any minute. Then she discovers that she is pregnant. Charles cannot come to grips with this and arranges an abortion, after which their lives fall apart...