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...after some 750,000 displaced Kosovars now under the alliance's care in the Serbian border regions of Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina: plenty of tents and blankets, food and water, and even battery chargers for cell phones so that refugees can contact their relatives. In some camps, makeshift convenience stores have sprung up, selling soda, meat pies and other homelike conveniences at affordable Balkan prices. But as international aid workers fight traditional camp scourges such as cholera and dysentery, they are also starting to gripe about another epidemic, one peculiar to the age of the televised war: celebrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Wear Your Tuxedo in Tirana | 5/20/1999 | See Source »

...case of Star Wars, Holst's "The Planets" had been used in film, television, and even radio as soundtracks to space-related media; Williams knew that, and composed accordingly. As George Lucas was filming the original Star Wars, he used the work of Wagner and Holst as a makeshift soundtrack. When the time came for the creation of an original track, he asked Williams to create something similar...

Author: By Jason F. C. clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Album Review: Star Wars Soundtack | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...case of Star Wars, Holst's "The Planets" had been used in film, television, and even radio as soundtracks to space-related media; Williams knew that, and composed accordingly. As George Lucas was filming the original Star Wars, he used the work of Wagner and Holst as a makeshift soundtrack. When the time came for the creation of an original track, he asked Williams to create something similar...

Author: By Jason F. C. clarke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: STAR WARS | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...because we know he could have made it," Angela Sanders, the daughter of slain teacher William "Dave" Sanders, said in a television appearance earlier this week. The students who showed Sanders pictures of his family as he lay dying wanted to carry the teacher out on a makeshift stretcher; police said no, and by the time paramedics reached him hours later, Sanders was beyond help. Criticism has centered on the first half hour of the rampage, and whether the SWAT team did enough to stop the carnage and contain the teenage killers. Doubters have included a fellow Colorado police officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWAT Team Finds Itself in a Sore Spot | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

There is no Radcliffe name to hide behind any more. Radcliffe cannot serve as a makeshift women's center. It is now Harvard's obligation to provide women with space. And Harvard must find a way to revamp RUS so that women's organizations still have funding. Harvard has to care...

Author: By Kathryn B. Clancy, | Title: What Radcliffe Does for You | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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