Word: happened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policing based on one's own agenda. American foreign policy over the past decade, and through it the actions of the United Nations have been frighteningly stopgap, often forced to make ultimatums when a situation springs full-form onto the international stage as a crisis no longer waiting to happen...
Unfortunately, it is perfectly possible to get good grades and graduate without having learned much of anything, and you don't even have to be an alcoholic or drug addict in order for it to happen. To ignore the Harvard experience, burying yourself in books, boyfriends (or girlfriends) or even (God forbid!) extracurriculars can occur without the use of outside agents...
...most interesting thing to happen came at the end, when the audience in the crowded theater booed. It's a boring film, and I can only echo what a patron at my showing said (once the booing stopped): "Now we know why it took only eight days to make." PEYTON HIGGISON Brunswick, Maine...
...soon forgotten the lesson taught us by Hitler's Holocaust? The one lesson taught by that insane carnage is never to forget. If we allow the memory of such a horrific occurrence in Cambodia to fade from global memory, then there is a chance that it will happen again. Almost 2 million people were brutally slaughtered, but we're no closer to knowing why. The only man who could have told us easily, Pol Pot, died in 1998. The world's reaction to Cambodia is appalling. We need to dig deep into this, investigate it, find out why. It will...
That's yet to happen for New York City filmmakers Sam Sokolow and Rob Lobl, who--until last week, at least--lived in that peculiar purgatory of artists who made something critically acclaimed but commercially invisible. Then help came from an unlikely source: Amazon.com the burgeoning online book/CD/electronics/toy store and auction house, which just began a program to distribute indie films. Starting this week, people will be able to buy a videocassette of The Definite Maybe from Amazon for $14.95. "With movies, it used to be either you made it big or you ended up just showing it to your...