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...Pearl Moi, the manager of the Wainwright Bankand Trust Company branch in Harvard Square, saidit is bank policy not to comment on such incidentsand referred requests for information to police...

Author: By Andrew L. Wright, | Title: Thief Nabbed In Harvard Sq. | 12/16/1993 | See Source »

...control and unable to function in a relationship-the tunes themselves are good solid rock. Nothing on this album will blow any listeners away, but most will find the Afghan Whigs a comfortable alternative to more highly touted but less interesting mainstream rock. For the grunge fan tired of Pearl Jam, it might be worth it to give the Whigs a whirl...

Author: By James B. Loeffler, | Title: Boy Meets Girl, Again | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

After the Chinese were excluded, Japanese became the principal concern of nativists who feared America's contamination by a "Yellow Peril." The shameful nadir of this bias followed the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Under pressure from security-conscious Army officials, the Federal Government exiled more than 100,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from their homes on the West Coast to internment camps in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyoming. Despite this humiliation, 30,000 Japanese Americans served in uniform, and the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the 100th Battalion became the most decorated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Migration | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...Visiteurs, was a hit of monster proportions. "The Visitors is the double of Jurassic Park," touted Toubon. "We are the best." At that moment, Americans in attendance had to be grateful that the U.S. has no government executive whose job it is to flack for Roseanne Arnold or Pearl Jam simply because their TV show and record album are at the top of the American charts. But the Floridians who packed the Sarasota Opera House in this sparkling Gulf Coast resort town would sit through any speech, however fatuous, that signaled the re-emergence of one of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Visitors Take Sarasota | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...hope to catch up with such Asian powerhouses as South Korea and Singapore by 2015. The special economic zone of Shenzhen is two hours' drive from the southern city of Guangzhou, where bustling construction sites and rows of town houses, factories and shopping centers line the road through the Pearl River delta. In Shanghai, China's New York City, shop windows are crammed with chic imports, electronic pagers and fancy cuts of meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Watch Out for China | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

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