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Dates: during 1990-1999
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South Africa was dress rehearsal for Gandhi's great cause, independence for India. From the day he arrived back home at 45, he dedicated himself to "Hind swaraj," Indian self-rule. More than independence, it meant a utopian blend of national liberty, individual self-reliance and social justice. Freedom entailed individual emancipation as well, the search for nobility of soul through self-discipline and denial. Most ordinary Indians, though, were just looking for an end to colonial rule. While his peace-and-love homilies may not have swayed them, they followed him because he made the British tremble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...work, described in last week's Nature, centers on so-called T-box genes. Common to all vertebrates, including humans, they're important in the development of limbs in the embryo--determining, for example, whether they become hind- or forelimbs (or in chickens, legs or wings). But, says geneticist Juan Carlos Belmonte, the study's senior scientist, "we didn't know if one of these genes by itself was sufficient to send a limb down one pathway or the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genetics: Genetics: Getting a Leg Up on the Birds | 5/10/1999 | See Source »

Although she has frequently served as mastercarpenter for Harvard dramatic productions, shesaid her last performing role was as the hind endof a horse. Adams House's pool theater, she said,would be an ideal place to hone her acting skills...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Adams House Names New Masters | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

Although she has frequently served as master carpenter for Harvard dramatic productions, she said her last performing role was as the hind end of a horse. Adams House's pool theater, she said, would be an ideal place to hone her acting skills...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Judith and Sean Palfrey Appointed Adams House Masters | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...have sex, or a reasonable facsimile of it, with a man who has his own standing army in order to relieve existential loneliness or find a soul mate. You do it for the record books, the thrill of it all. It's like the dog who walked on its hind legs: it's not that it's done well, but that it's done at all. Sex in the study next to the Oval Office while the most powerful man on earth discussed military action in a foreign country with a member of Congress might have been what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monica Lewinsky, We Hardly Knew You | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

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