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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is no legal reason why all alumni names cannot be included somewhere in Memorial Hall or on its grounds. I have read the original deeds of gift, and the only concern was to protect the seriousness of the memorial. Nowhere is there any language that even mentions the Confederacy. Remember how the dead were honored in the 19th century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confederate Memorial Historically Appropriate | 11/27/1996 | See Source »

...Yale already memorializes its alumni who fell on both sides in the Civil War, and Calhoun College is named for John C. Calhoun, the author of much secessionist political theory such as the nullification doctrine to protect minority rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Confederate Memorial Historically Appropriate | 11/27/1996 | See Source »

...list is intended to protect children, McSweeney said...

Author: By Pamela S. Wasserstein, | Title: Sex Offender Law May Be Amended | 11/26/1996 | See Source »

...repatriation of the refugees. How they would do that was equally unspecified. About 1,000 U.S. troops would take over the airport at Goma, the Zairean city nearest the fighting, held by Zairean Tutsi rebels. They would open a three-mile corridor between Goma and the Rwanda border to protect refugees walking home--though the border is in fact only a few hundred yards away. An additional 2,000 or 3,000 Americans would go to Rwanda and Uganda to airlift in supplies and the other 10,000 foreign troops, whose jobs no one seemed ready to explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW SHOULD WE HELP? | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

Fifty years is a long time to obstruct justice. The Swiss are worried about their world image? Ah yes, this is the benign country of chocolate, precision timepieces, army knives, downhill skiing, Heidi and William Tell. Hogwash! The Swiss are the people who do business with and protect organized crime, petty dictators, drug dealers and, simply, fiscal terrorists. If the people in power really wanted to do the right thing, it would be easy. The consortium of banks and government would allocate a certain sum of money (far less than the $7 billion figure you mentioned, of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 25, 1996 | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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