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...have sold more copies. The program's most popular aria, Puccini's Nessun dorma, became a fight song not only for the World Cup competition but also for record buyers everywhere, who used it as an anthem to get them onto the freeway in the morning or ready to confront the boss. All'alba vincero (At dawn I shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: They're Baaack! | 7/18/1994 | See Source »

...easing stance on its nuclear program. If Kim Jong Il indeed makes a smooth transition to the leadership of his country, he will have to deal immediately with the nuclear conflict. Few foreign leaders have met with or even seen the younger Kim, and yet he will have to confront the United States and the United Nations in the near future...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Decline And Fall of the Old Empire | 7/12/1994 | See Source »

...conclusion is inescapable," Ryan wrote,"for whatever reason, Battenfield did not do whatshe was told would be reasonable necessary topursue an investigation, nor did she ever suggestthat she do something different. Harvard was in noposition whatever to confront Ostrowski with anaccusation...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: University Wins Battenfield Case | 7/6/1994 | See Source »

...most of the war criminals remain in their homelands, safe from prosecution. Nothing has been done to confront the likes of Milosevic and Karadzic or others on the U.S. list. Leaders at that level will be the most difficult to prosecute even though they bear primary responsibility for crimes committed by underlings. "Dusan Tadic is only a small part in the machinery of evil," says Ragib Hadzic, director of the Bosnia and Herzegovina War Crimes Commission office in Zenica, near Sarajevo. "Who created Dule Tadic? Who created the framework in which Tadic could exist? It is the creators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Rush to Judgment | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...seats of movie palaces more than a half- century ago as they watched Snow White succumb to the poison apple or Bambi's mother die from a hunter's shotgun blast. Disney cartoons were often the first films kids saw and the first that forced them to confront the loss of home, parent, life. These were horror movies with songs, Greek tragedies with a cute chorus. They offered shock therapy to four-year-olds, and that elemental jolt could last forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: The Mouse Roars | 6/20/1994 | See Source »

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