Word: australian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From CEDAW to the Human Rights Committee: reflections on Women's Human Rights in the U.N. System. Justice Elizabeth Evatt, president, Australian Law Reform Commission; member, U.N. Human Rights Committee. Pound Hall...
...burst of activity makes Murdoch a formidable force in the fast-evolving world of media alliances and the race to develop an electronic superhighway into the home. It pits the Australian-born mogul and his partners against such giants as Time Warner, AT&T and cable-firm Viacom International, which are rushing to build interactive systems of their own. At the same time, the star tv and BSkyB deals enable Murdoch to bestride the television world. When asked whether he intends to build a global TV network, Murdoch booms out, "Oh, absolutely...
...most coherent idea: yet another sports channel, ESPN2, which is to start next month with a more gonzo sensibility and a younger, duuude-skewing audience than the original channel. The people at Fox have been talking about launching a cable channel practically since chairman Rupert Murdoch was an Australian, and last week, under the gun, they announced it: FX, with a very cool logo, is to go on the air next March with a vague, general-entertainment mandate and a lot of live emcees who will -- this is the New Age, 21st century part -- read viewers' faxed messages...
...SLEEP WITH. EVEN BRETT BARNES, an 11-year-old Australian boy who spoke in Jackson's defense, said the star shared a bed, with him. "I was on one side of the bed, and he was on the other," he told KNBC-TV. "It was a big bed." In his TV interview with Oprah Winfrey last February, when asked what he missed in his own childhood, Jackson said, "Slumber parties." He had them with the 13-year-old who made the allegations; indeed, Jackson traveled to Monte Carlo and Walt Disney World with that boy, his half-sister...
...they're not. Witness the experience of British engineer David Rowbottom and his Australian cousin Tania Miller, who were entranced by the promise of dramatic vistas in Turkey until they found themselves staring down the gun barrels of insurgents from the Kurdistan Workers Party, a guerrilla group lately kidnapping tourists as part of its war for independence. After packing Rowbottom and Miller around the backcountry for five weeks to avoid searches by the Turkish army, the guerrillas freed the couple last week. Rowbottom and Miller expressed relief at being released alive and unharmed. They did not indicate, however, whether they...