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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those slaves, "to bring the stories of the obscure side by side with the powerful, as they had been in life." He found, of course, violence and the mixing of black blood with white. But the voices rising from letters, family papers and the tea-colored pages of "blanket books"--records of provisions given to slaves--told uglier truths. One Ball ancestor, Henry Laurens, the first president of the Continental Congress, was also the largest slave trader in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUTURING THE WOUNDS | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

...anyone can't stay at UniLu, we give them a blanket, a plate of hot food, coffee," Fisher said...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student-Run Shelter Provides Warm Comfort from the Cold | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...military action against Saddam could be self-defeating: if he refuses to budge, the Arab world could rise up against the spectacle of sustained bombing. "Surgical air strikes will not eliminate [U.S.] suspicions," says Russian Ambassador to the U.N. Sergei Lavrov, "and they will raise hell in the region. Blanket bombing will turn everyone in the Arab world against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACING DOWN A DESPOT | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

Such balance was achieved in the second movement, where dense triplet runs, exchanged around the orchestra, blanket the background with a literal whirlwind. Where the low strings were a little muddy and understated, the winds were articulate and perfectly balanced. When the runs finally arrived in the upper strings the execution was clear and precise. After a climax, which perhaps could have been heightened, a cannon in the brass section follows. Here, with staggered entrances, the strength of the brass choir was fully exploited, each voice clear and sonorous...

Author: By Christopher T. Ariza, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Colorful HRO Performs Streamlined Premiere | 11/7/1997 | See Source »

Certainly the death penalty should not become a blanket punishment, but the people of Massachusetts can decide which crimes will be deemed heinous enough to merit this stiff punishment...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: Penalty Useful Tool | 11/5/1997 | See Source »

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