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...thousand demonstrators are expected to descend on Harvard for Chinese President Jiang Zemin's speech on Saturday, but not everyone is ready to condemn the leader of the world's most populous nation...

Author: By Tara L. Colon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: CSA Head Decries Uninformed Protesters | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...account can identify with a character like Hawke's, working a much bigger scam on a bureaucracy quiveringly alert to genetic impostors. A lost eyelash, a bit of exfoliated skin left on his keyboard could undo him--especially when the cops, led by a very querulous Alan Arkin, suddenly descend on his facility and, as they investigate a murder, start subjecting everyone's detritus to genetic spot checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CHIPS OFF THE OLD TEST TUBE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...that is if you were lucky enough to see to begin with. City Hall Plaza is definitely not the ideal location for an event of this magnitude. The main stage was set up in front of the old City hall, and fans filled in the layers of steps that descend to the building and around the stage. That means the stage was down below in a pit, and fans were left far above fighting for a place...

Author: By Marc P. Resteghini, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Lesson in MIXology: Sponsor Good, Free Music and Fans Will Come | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

PNOMH PENH: As gunfire echoed through the streets of the capital, Cambodia began to descend once more into the isolated international pariah state it had been under the Khmer Rouge. Three days after Second Prime Minister Hun Sen took over in a bloody coup, troops went door-to-door through Phnom Penh's largest hotel today, hunting down opposition legislators and arresting them. At least one of Hun Sen's vocal critics was shot and killed while in police custody. "He was arrested by the government troops and he has died," said General Khieu Sopheak. The blithe efficiency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return to the Killing Fields? | 7/8/1997 | See Source »

...biggest entertainment software convention of the year was nine days away, and John Romero still didn't have his monsters finished or his dialogue written. The computer gaming masses who descend upon Atlanta this Thursday for the third annual Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) will be lining up to test-drive the latest offering from the man who designed some of the seminal CD-ROM games of the 1990s--including Doom, Doom II and Quake--but as of last week, Romero and his team were still scrambling to get the demo done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEYOND DOOM AND QUAKE | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

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