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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Keeping Dobson and other Christian-right leaders happy has become the central preoccupation of Republican lawmakers. In the House, the legislative agenda is crammed with "pro-family" votes aimed at Dobson's constituency. Last week alone, the House voted to ban federal support of needle exchanges for drug addicts, passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The G.O.P. Mantra: Keep Dobson Happy | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

We believe our proposal for a Code of Conduct represents the best and most realistic step that Harvard and other universities can take towards solving the problems of sweatshops such as child labor. The goal of the Code is not to simply wipe our hands clean of the problems in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Child Labor Claims Invalid | 4/23/1998 | See Source »

You can't win 'em all, especially with a Cold War-era game plan: Washington's resolution condemning Cuba was slapped down at a U.N. human rights forum yesterday, but the news from Europe was better -- the EU is dropping its World Trade Organization complaint against the Helms-Burton Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington's Havana Headaches | 4/22/1998 | See Source »

After World War I he returned to Palestine, now governed by Britain and--after 1920--designated by the League of Nations as a "National Home" for the Jewish people. He rose to prominence in the growing Zionist-socialist movement. The increasing anti-Semitism in Europe during the 1920s and '30s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Ben-Gurion | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

Among the scheduled speakers is Beate Sirota Gordon, the only female framer of the MacArthur Constitution--which was instituted in Japan after World War II--and a present-day activist. She is of Russian origin but made a mark on Japanese history when she wrote the provision that guaranteed "essential...

Author: By Jie Li, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Japanese Culture, Politics To Blend At ECJAL Conference This Weekend | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

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