Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jonathan Harr's bestseller is a difficult book to adapt because it's not a hero-conquers-all story. The main character is a flawed hero--John Travolta plays real-life lawyer Jan Schlictmann with fiery intensity and a stubborn arrogance. A Civil Action is a difficult movie to like precisely because we must watch his disintegration. But the film rewards your patience. It takes the standard legal thriller and in it finds something more substantial: a human drama defined by gray rather than black and white...
...booze," says co-founder Betsy Siggins Schmidt. Over the years though, student nightlife has fragmented as venues multiplied, and the Club's Americana format has become less immediate than it was when folk musicians were creating a vocal canon of protest in the days of Vietnam and the civil rights movement...
...Congress reversed the Court's ruling, expanding the Indian Civil Rights Act to give individual tribal governments criminal jurisdiction over any American Indian on their lands...
Congress later negated that ruling when they amended the Indian Civil Rights Act. Under the revised act, a tribe's criminal jurisdiction covers all Native Americans...
...Washington's closest allies that the U.S. targeted the wrong site, probably on the basis of faulty intelligence," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "But nobody's too upset because it's also widely accepted that Sudan has hosted terrorists, dabbled in chemical weapons and is conducting a genocidal civil war in the south." U.S. officials publicly maintain the attack was valid, but they've also retreated substantially from their original explanation of the attack. Sudan's tarnished reputation may have minimized the political fallout from the strike, but Mr. Idris's lawyers believe they may have enough evidence...