Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Burns said his interest in producing the documentary began 11 years ago, during the production of his Civil War documentary...
...could be that O.J. Simpson's acquittal from the charge of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman actually knocked some sense into the man. Or maybe it was the harsh verdict of his civil trial, which ordered Simpson to pay over $33.5 million in damages. But in truth, Simpson probably just didn't want to have another dead woman on his hands...
...Kraussers had signed on with Service Civil International of Seattle, which coordinates work camps in 50 countries. Since they have a strong interest in classical Greek culture, they volunteered for two weeks last spring to clear the overgrown site of an ancient amphitheater in Mycenae. Occasionally turning up pieces of marble in the theater's dusty floor, Traudi held them in her hand and imagined what the place and people had been like thousands of years ago. Weekend trips to Delphi and Olympia, arranged by the Greek cultural organization sponsoring the work camp, were an unexpected bonus...
Geller currently receives a salary from the Smithsonian tied to the civil service pay scale. Harvard pays her an additional quarter of a professorial salary, bringing her income to roughly that of a tenured professor. However, Harvard's salary is contingent on her continued employment by the Smithsonian...
...called it a who?s who of kingpins. And that?s a happy coincidence for President Pastrana, coming just weeks after he asked for substantial U.S. aid to fight the narco traffickers." Colombia has asked for the aid, over three years, as part of an ambitious program to rebuild civil society in a country that has been savaged by drug and political violence...