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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Hindi movies are the very embodiment of cheese, with rambling storylines, one-dimensional characters, and melodramatic monologues that stretch into oblivion. Each new Hindi movie is simply a variation of a previous Hindi movie, with a few modifications. (For example, villain with mustache becomes villain without mustache.) The repetition is so blatant that there is a popular email circulating at work concerning the “rules” that all Hindi movies must abide by. Some of the more entertaining ones...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: POSTCARD FROM BANGALORE, INDIA: Let the Dancing Begin | 8/3/2001 | See Source »

...while Rhys thinks the company can become profitable and remain strong for six to seven years, he says after that it will need to partner with or be bought by a larger rival to help fund new product development. Otherwise, he says, "Rover faces a slow decline into oblivion." For now, Rover's managers insist that they're not interested in buyers, partners, additional investors or a market flotation - that they only want to stick to their game plan. If potential buyers or partners come knocking after that, ceo Howe says, "who knows how it might turn out?" Executives also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rover's Return | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

Abortion teaching had been slipping into oblivion until MSFC began to reverse the trend. Though the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal, prompting some med schools to include the procedure in course work, the ruling also fueled an active antiabortion movement that sought to stigmatize providers. (Last week the House passed a bill making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a woman, a measure seen by someas the first step toward new limits on the procedure.) Wanting to avoid controversy and often at the behest of conservative legislatures or donors, many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Med Students Put Abortion Back In The Classroom | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...should not be televising executions, even for the satisfaction of the victims' families. We should not be executing these people at all. Oblivion kills them better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slippery Slope to Public Executions? | 4/12/2001 | See Source »

Recently, a commission funded by the Oklahoma legislature investigated the riot. Its purpose was to “excavate a history that had been consigned to oblivion for the past 75 years,” according to the distinguished historian John Hope Franklin...

Author: By Alfred L. Brophy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Continuing the Reparations Debate | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

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