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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...never been signed, South Korea is still at war with North Korea, and whether relative peace can come about only depends on how its northern neighbor chooses to restrain itself. For the past decades, the Korean peninsula has never ceased to resemble a barrel of gunpowder which could blow up any time. Bordering upon each other are the two countries, both claiming to be the true representative of the Korean people, between whom there exists the widest and oddest gap imaginable given a homogeneous race and an identical language...

Author: By Xiaomeng Tong, | Title: A Second Korean War? | 4/27/1996 | See Source »

Even worse, I had to throw my hands in the air trying to follow Michigan basketball. As I graduated high school, I watched fellow Detroit Country Day alum Chris Webber and the rest of the Fab Five blow it in the NCAA finals again. Last spring, I suffered through watching a bunch of new hot shots stink up Dayton Arena in a firstround loss to the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Let ESPNet Show Us the Way | 4/27/1996 | See Source »

Everybody has diversions during exam time. Some run around the Yard naked; I check ESPNet every five minutes (scores are updated every minute) to get a blow-by-blow account of my teams. I remember the string of heartbreaking one-point losses by the Pistons and the seemingly never-ending streak of Red Wings' victories...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Let ESPNet Show Us the Way | 4/27/1996 | See Source »

...that PNC is willing to keep peace negotiation on track. Israel had threatened to scrub May negotiations on the unresolved status of Palestinian refugees, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and jurisdiction of Jerusalem if the PNC did not remove the clauses. PNC inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in national elections May 29. With the PNC vote, the ball is now in Peres' court. The PLO is hoping Israel will hasten the redeployment of troops in Hebron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLO Ends Its Call to Arms | 4/25/1996 | See Source »

...that PNC is willing to keep peace negotiation on track. Israel had threatened to scrub May negotiations on the unresolved status of Palestinian refugees, Israeli settlements in the occupied territories and jurisdiction of Jerusalem if the PNC did not remove the clauses. PNC inaction might also have dealt a blow to the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who faces a stiff challenge from Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu in national elections May 29. With the PNC vote, the ball is now in Peres' court. The PLO is hoping Israel will hasten the redeployment of troops in Hebron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLO Ends Its Call to Arms | 4/24/1996 | See Source »

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