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DIED. SHUSAKU ENDO, 73; widely acclaimed Roman Catholic novelist and a popular Japanese writer in the West; of hepatitis complications; in Tokyo. Author of Deep River, Scandal and Silence, Endo focused on questions of faith and the clash of cultures.
NEW YORK CITY: Now comes the hard part. A little more than a year after the deal was announced, shareholders of Time Warner and Turner Broadcasting voted voted Thursday to approve the $7.5 billion merger. After clearing the considerable hurdles of an FTC review and the opposition of U.S. West...
About 150 students in "Foreign Cultures 34: Mesoamerican Civilizations," taught by Bowditch Professor of Central American and Mexican Archaeology and Ethnology Professor William L. Fash, were evacuated from University Museum 1 at about 11:50 a.m., students said.
"In each of us," she said, "all the old cultures live."
The response of the international community to round two of the Intifadah was equally predictable. Like clockwork, the Arab uprising was followed by a myriad of "condemnations," "calls for tranquillity in the region" and a series of United Nations debates which inevitably led to the equivalent of a resolution criticizing...