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...After graduating at the top of his class in the Indonesian national military academy in 1973, he went on to join the army's top brass, and ultimately served as a military observer for U.N. peacekeeping operations in Bosnia during the mid-1990s...
After severe famines killed perhaps 1 million people in the mid-1990s, the government tolerated a limited amount of market reform, including the proliferation of farmers' markets and the tilling of private plots. But in 2005, Pyongyang reversed course and began re-establishing the state's dominance over food distribution. Officials have even slapped new restrictions on the operation of marketplaces in recent years. (See pictures of Kim Jong...
...Hollywood were to crown a king and queen of nice movie stars, Sandra Bullock would be on a throne next to Tom Hanks. She's been a headliner since the mid-1990s (she turns 45 in July) without incurring the hatred or envy of the town's rapier-tongued gossips. Apparently she is kind to children, dogs and the little people on the set. Onscreen, Bullock personifies the wholesome, working-class common sense of the ideal friend or girlfriend. From her first hits, Speed and While You Were Sleeping, she knew how to get laughs and produce tears with equal...
...government "froze" the settlements in 2003 but has surreptitiously supported building through a network of agencies, so building approval increased at a rate of 40% between 2007 and 2008 alone, according to Yesh Din, an Israeli organization suing to stop outpost settlements. So much building has happened since the mid-1990s that the West Bank resembles a Jackson Pollock drip painting of Jewish and Arab lands, connected and disconnected by bypass roads and cement blocks. The old Green Line border, now morphing into a wall, has literally doubled in size to account for myriad new thrusts into, twists around...
...Aside from Springsteen, most artists are reluctant to bad-mouth the merger. Experts speculate artists fear retaliation and recall the losing battle Pearl Jam fought against Ticketmaster in the mid-1990s. But Ticketmaster has its fans - Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan sent Congress a letter gushing support for the proposed merger. The letter was an about-face for Corgan, who in the past was critical of Ticketmaster's system and opted to use Jam Productions instead of Live Nation for some of his tours. However, Corgan is now a client of Azoff's Front Line artist-management company within Ticketmaster...