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Word: civilizations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twin brothers are standing on a railway platform in Hengyang, saying what they think is their final farewell. It is a spring morning in 1949, and they are surrounded by refugees and wounded soldiers. China's civil war is reaching its climax. The 16-year-olds have received a letter that is to change their destinies forever. It is a message from their father Yang Deyuan: "You two take different roads, so no matter which side is going to win or lose, I will have a river on my left and on my right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TWINS: Splintered for decades by China's violent revolution, a family comes back together | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Kovach's job in Atlanta was merely one stop in a distinguished career. He began reporting in 1959 at the Johnson City Press Chronicle in Tennessee and spent much of the 1960s covering the civil rights movement, Appalachian poverty and southern politics for the Nashville Tennesseean...

Author: By David C. Newman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nieman Curator to Step Down | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

Solving the problems that plague Cambridge's public schools was the focus of a notably civil discussion at last night's "School Committee Candidates Forum" at the Cambridge Senior Center...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: School Committee Candidates Look to End Disparity | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...learn what it meant," Dunn says. "People accepted segregation very unthinkingly... My interest and engagement in the civil rights movement came in the '60s, but my understanding began...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan and Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: With Wit and Wisdom, Dunn Becomes Dean | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...manufacturers. Congress must grant the Justice Department's request for $20 million for expert witnesses and government lawyers in order to make the lawsuit viable. And the Justice Department itself must permit evidence gathered in a five year long criminal investigation of cigarette manufacturers to be used in the civil lawsuit so tax payer dollars aren't unnecessarily wasted in a duplication of efforts...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Making Big Tobacco Pay | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

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