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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, it is the Congress party which has historically pandered to minority interests in return for votes and turned a blind eye to communal violence when minorities withdrew support. Congress's blatant non-intervention in anti-Sikh violence in the 1984 Punjab reprisal and anti-Muslim violence in the 1992 Bombay riots are ample evidence. The incidence of communal violence has actually gone down in the states where Hindu nationalism has replaced the hypocritical "secularism" of Congress. This is because "Hindutva," while being a more Hindu-centric view, most definitely does not entail oppression of minorities but rather just...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Misleading Representation Of Indian Government | 3/5/1998 | See Source »

...under probation specifically over bacteria, may remain under scrutiny. A New York City tabloid called him a "mad scientist." And, if all this had been a movie, Harris might well have been sent by central casting. The 46-year-old has a full beard and a spastic eye. Then there is his home in Lancaster, Ohio. The first thing you notice when you enter Harris' world is the smell, the stench of numerous cats and dogs in a cramped bungalow. This is laced with the subtler scent of a basement filled with dried foods, stockpiled for the aftermath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching a 48-Hour Bug | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...makes almost never-ending eye contact. The way he looks at you, it's almost like he wants to get inside of you. You feel like you have his undivided attention, like he'd do anything to please...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 2, 1998 | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...many of us who live in New York City did think Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was joking when he said he was cracking down on jaywalking. It was something Humphrey Bogart as a private eye might have said sarcastically to a homicide lieutenant whose guff he did not intend to take ("That's real good, flatfoot, but isn't it about time for you to go out and arrest another nun for jaywalking?"). But then a law student crossing Sixth Avenue got a $50 jaywalking ticket. What we had forgotten was that Mayor Giuliani is never joking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rudy Giuliani, Proctor of New York | 3/2/1998 | See Source »

...Boston area, the moon covered 21.4 percent of the sun at 1:25 p.m, not enough for the unaided eye to notice, since the sun did not appear to be any darker...

Author: By Ronald Y. Koo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Partial Solar Eclipse Shines in Clear Skies | 2/27/1998 | See Source »

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