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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second-year medical student at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Science and Technology, and Phillips, a speech writer, will be joined by a third Harvard affiliate, Daniel F. Melia '66, in the tournament. Melia is a professor of Scandinavian and Celtic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley...

Author: By Theresa J. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: No Question: Students Win Big on 'Jeopardy!' | 12/16/1997 | See Source »

Unencumbered by the notion that they may be operating out of expropriated property, foreign hotel companies like Club Med (France), Sol Melia (Spain), Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHECKING INTO CUBA? | 8/25/1997 | See Source »

...Melia Tabono lies semiconscious on a cot, her swollen face glistening with sweat and sand. An intravenous tube drips saline solution into her veins, as a friend, Thelma Nonatura, a fellow Filipino, desperately fans a piece of cardboard to combat the 95 degrees heat. Six weeks ago, Tabono, 38, worked as a seamstress in Kuwait City. Now she is among tens of thousands of refugees struggling to survive in a strip of scorched desert between Iraq and Jordan. "Our lives have been destroyed," murmurs Nonatura. "I can't feel anything anymore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: On The Edge of Tragedy | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

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