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...During their decade-long reign, the Howard government has considered amending the law in 1998 and again in 2001, but both times they backed down. Still, the issue remained on the table, and when the Minister for Communications, Information Technology, and the Arts, Helen Coonan, introduced a bill to parliament this March, it came as little surprise...
...American Apollo Creed (“Rocky IV”)—The Cold War turns hot, though not as hot as the tears that are sure to roll down your cheeks. Inspired by this incident, President Reagan decides to end global communism and initiate the thousand-year reign of peace and prosperity we enjoy today. —Patrick R. Chesnut ’09 is the incoming Books editor. He throws a mean left hook and eats raw eggs for breakfast...
...geeky.” Flown out to Los Angeles to live in a mansion for five weeks of luxury, Dern attests wholeheartedly that “it was an incredible experience.” The show, though, was hardly Dern’s first taste of fame. During its reign as Harvard’s only band dedicated to Han Solo and the crew of the Millennium Falcon, So Long Princess has acquired a modest following and is slated to represent Harvard in an upcoming battle of the bands competition in Boston. They perform about three times a month...
...South America has ever witnessed. His right-wing regime, which lasted 17 years until he ceded power to an elected civilian government in 1990, was responsible for the deaths or disappearances of more than 3,000 suspected communists and other leftists - "disappeared," in fact, became a noun during his reign - while thousands more were tortured or forced into exile (including Bachelet's family). Even banishment wasn't safe: in 1976, Pinochet henchmen assassinated former Chilean ambassador and Pinochet opponent Orlando Letelier by planting a bomb under his car in Washington, D.C. That same year, Pinochet's successes helped inspire...
...third financial bonanza in show business, the first taking place when they sold their struggling indie-movie company to Disney in 1993 for $70 million. After bristling for years under the control-freak management of former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, they ended the bitter final chapter of their Miramax reign on an up note. "After we signed our final contracts, we took all the Disney lawyers to a three-hour, raucous, rollicking dinner," recalls Harvey...