Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McIntyre & Moore joins a procession of small businesses that have recently left Harvard Square. The Mass Army Navy Store and Seven Stars bookstore moved to Central Square, while Pipeline Records relocated to Inman Square. The stores move because their business models cannot survive in today's Harvard Square...
Xiguang Li, author and senior editor of the Xinhua News Agency in China, will research the birth of a new kind of journalism in a more market-driven Chinese society. Romanian journalist and political author Alina Pippidi-Mungiu will focus on television reform in East-central Europe...
Nonblack performers are increasingly drawing from rap. Beck expertly combined folk and hip-hop. Hanson's hit MMMBop included deejay scratching. Portishead refashioned hip-hop into ethereal trip-hop. Singer Beth Orton, whose enchantingly moody album Central Reservation is due out in March, blends folksy guitars with samples and beats. Doug Century, author of Street Kingdom: Five Years Inside the Franklin Avenue Posse, studied hip-hop culture as he documented the lives of gang members; he predicts white acts will eventually dominate rap, just as white rockers pushed out rock's black forerunners. "It's possible that in 15 years...
...three of them combined revolution and civil war--rescripted society, economics, and government on both sides of the ocean." Thus, for example, the American Civil War resolved--the hard way--the problem of slavery. Put the three wars together, as Phillips does, and you see that they "constitute the central staircase of modern English-speaking history, not least the division into two great powers with pointedly different characteristics--not sister or brother nations, but cousins. However unforeseen, this duality proved to be the Anglo-American genius...
...several thousand ground troops to Kosovo, an event in nearby Bosnia last week highlighted just how wrong the Clinton administration was when in 1995 it assured Congress that troops would not stay there long. The Pentagon opened what's basically a Wal-Mart PX at Task Force Eagle, the central base for G.I.'s deployed in Bosnia. The 10,000-square-foot facility is good for the morale of the troops, who are restricted to the post for most of their time in Bosnia. The store features souvenir mugs, Beanie Babies, T-shirts, electronics, CDs -- the best-selling items...