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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Obasanjo cited six major areas that need improvement: expansion of minority rights, gender equality, alleviating poverty, youth development, globalization and cultural identity...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nigerian President Commits to Democracy | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Lawrence said he often finds himself trying to "sell" the Colombian news to the American public. Occasionally, he said, he has a 45-second segment on NPR or a story in newspapers, but "only if there is no other major news...

Author: By Marla B. Kaplan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Discusses Reporting in Colombia | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

After decades of disputes with the government and with the United States Surgeon-General, U.S. tobacco company Philip Morris, the largest in the country, made a cynical publicity bid earlier this month when it at last recognized that smoking causes cancer and other major diseases and that tobacco is addictive...

Author: By Marianne C. S. brun-rovet, | Title: Smoke in Our Eyes | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...Tartari Gemi, or "curse god", who curses Ashitaka, the last descendant of the Emishi royal house. In reality the last Emishi village had been taken over by the Japanese empire long before the Muromanchi era; the threat of the Emishi's extinction introduces one of Princess Mononoke's major themes--that of threatened ways of life. Ashitaka goes on a journey to find where the Tartari Gemi came from--specifically to find what or who created the iron slug he finds in the Tartari Gemi's corpse. Eventually, he discovers a group of iron-workers destroying an ancient forest...

Author: By Nia C. Stephens, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Mononoke on the Horizon: Will the 'Princess' survive a precarious translation? | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...permanent collection includes major works by Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Kenneth Noland and so on. Somehow, the best modern and contemporary art museum in New England is something of a secret. Besides a collection that includes work by just about all of anyone's favorite artists of the latter 20th century, the Rose boasts a remarkable exhibition progra.m. of contemporary...

Author: By Annie Bourneuf and John Hulsey, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: The Field Guide: Part One of Our Guide to Boston Visual Art | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

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