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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love for Conrad, who agrees, for her sake, to free the other slave girls. But this decision angers his close friend Birbanto (Lazlo Berdo), who concocts a plot whereby Conrad is drugged in his sleep and Birbanto attempts to murder him. Medora fights with Birbanto and slashes his arm before the pirates carry her off to the pasha. Conrad, awaking to find Medora gone, is consoled by a suddenly "loyal" Birbanto...

Author: By Christiana Briggs, | Title: 'Le Corsaire' Sails to Success: | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...through and make all the courses in the catalog bypasses, but we'd like to have about four departmental courses added at the end of each Core section," Hurwitz said. "It's not crazy or extreme, and there won't be any arm-twisting of professors...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: Vote on Core Reform Unlikely | 4/10/1997 | See Source »

...heartthrob is, notoriously, his neighbor's grimmest nightmare: What could he possibly see in her, we ask ourselves, watching the tawdrily dressed, flaky and obsequious woman on his arm (and unable, by definition, to see what he sees in her--and with her--when alone)? And one man's faith is no less impossible for a nonbeliever to fathom: in recent days, millions were celebrating the idea that a man actually rose from the dead, while another doubtless felt that he was committing a holy act that would gain him a place in heaven when he strapped a bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR DAYS OF JUDGMENT | 4/7/1997 | See Source »

Emphasizing the universality of human rights, Lee said that Europeans, Americans and Chinese all experience the same pain of a broken arm or a bullet in the head...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, | Title: Civil Liberties at Stake in Hong Kong, Lee Says | 4/3/1997 | See Source »

...concision of the earlier. Most problematic of all, naturally, are the paintings--currently on view at New York City's Museum of Modern Art--that were done in the '80s, after his mind was completely gone and he had to rely on assistants to do everything but move his arm across the canvas. These spectral, vacuous confections of ribbony paint are among the saddest things ever made by a once major artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DESIRE AT FULL STRETCH: WILLEM DE KOONING (1904-1997) | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

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