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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...revisions to the constitutional role of Japan's military have been broached. A resurgent China makes the Japanese nervous and they also wonder about the reliability of the U.S. military umbrella if something like a North Korean missile - one of which hit 360 miles offshore in 1998 - were to disturb the region's peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guarding Reputations | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

Kocher has also received a number of suggestions for resolving the conflict, including asking the College administration to revoke the Lampoon's student organization status, and making the Lampoon give a large donation to a charity each time they disturb Adams residents...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Noisy Poonsters Prompt Adams Petition | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...Disturb...

Author: By Alexander B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Party Hour Extension Likely For Next Year | 4/10/2001 | See Source »

Owens wasn't as concerned about our eight-year-old, who usually gets about 10 hours of sleep a night, with a frequent change of venue--to her parents' bed--around dawn. But Owens was worried about us: "These wakings are more likely to disturb you than her." Make that my husband. He sleeps through nothing, while I snooze through all manner of commotion. To help him get the recommended eight hours for adults, Owens said we should set limits. For instance, no coming into our room before Daddy's alarm goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Lose Sleep | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...else preserve the election of 2000 in their hearts in the way a Croatian grandmother may cherish the bloody shirt in which her husband was stabbed by a Serb, in order to show it to her grandchildren and swear them to revenge) - I bring up these howls not to disturb the dead horse of that election, but to make a different point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Partisanship Is Just a Form of Blindness | 4/5/2001 | See Source »

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