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...tragic proportions. As in Bosnia and Croatia, race has become the only criterion for murder. Hundred of thousands of people--Hutus and Tutsis--are fleeing Kigali, but they have nowhere to go. Espcaping the fighting gives them a chance at life, but starvation is already claiming thousands in the barren lands around the city...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Ignoring African Genocide | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...Edzard does convey the tone of the play masterfully. Despite the hearty doese of romance, "As You Like It" revels in a misanthropic melancholy. The faceless, charmless interior sets of lobbies and corridors convey a barren, hollow grandeur, whole the bleak urban wasteland of rubble-strewn lots and disused machinery has an equally oppressive effect. London's grey skies and wan, pallid bussinesspeople, seckled with liverspots, contribute to the gloom...

Author: By Edward P. Mcbride, | Title: Movie Not As Shakespeare Liked It | 3/24/1994 | See Source »

...facade of Holworthy Hall, the Yard's most famous bulletin board, will be barren for quite some time...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Banners Banned From Holworthy | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

...have a great family and a terrific wife," Barren says. "I think I have a terrific family and friends support structure...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Barone Finds Job Satisfying | 2/26/1994 | See Source »

...grew dark and the view of rice fields was soon replaced by that of gas stations, announced by blinking, green and pink neon signs and barren land cleared for construction. The road was crowded with trucks loaded with steel pipes. Our van jerked, swerved and cut past each of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Gang of Twelve | 2/3/1994 | See Source »

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