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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...interview with Pamela Burdman of the San Francisco Chronicle, Wu summarized his main goal--to make laogai "an English word...

Author: By Christopher T. Boyd, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dissident Harry Wu to Give Speech | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

This was Liemandt's main piece of advice to the crowd: "Build something they have to buy by starting a new market, so that you have no competition and can set your own prices...

Author: By Sarah E. Henrickson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Founder of Trilogy Speaks About His Career | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...five minutes, Jiang read from a prepared text in Chinese in an elaborately decorated marble hall of the Main Building at Drexel. With a plush, specially rolled-out red carpet underneath Jiang's feet and gold and blue Drexel banners in English and Chinese characters draping the hallways, Drexel was clothed to the hilt. Painters put the fin- ishing touches on doors just hours before the Secret Service would escort Jiang through. Behind the president hung two enormous flags, each three stories long, of the United States and the People's Republic of China...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Jiang Gives Address At Drexel University | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...millions who logged on to download Pathfinder pictures will testify, the mission was an unqualified success. So dry those tears. When we finally make it to the Red Planet in person, the robot's frozen corpse can become the main attraction at the first Martian theme park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THURSDAY: Lost on Mars | 10/30/1997 | See Source »

...lead share not only their first names but also their sexual proclivities). The coming-out episode became the highest-rated regular program on ABC for the entire season. Suddenly, after years of only middling success, Ellen was a cultural phenomenon--the first series on television in which the main character was gay. That left a challenge: Now what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: ELLEN DEGENERES: YEP, SHE'S STILL GAY | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

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