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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hoping for the faintest sign of recognition. Perhaps he had left a note for me. But their confused looks and empty nods revealed they had no idea what I was talking about. I came to the conclusion that I was just making them nervous, and holding back the river of tears, I turned back toward the main exit...

Author: By Amy M. Rabinowitz, | Title: Japan's Surprises and Wonders | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...minister of God." The pontiff will send Cardinal Jozef Tomko, head of the Vatican's office for missions, to celebrate a memorial service--or a funeral, if the corpse is recovered. That will probably never happen. The killers almost surely threw the archbishop's body into the nearby Mubarazi River, the way they have disposed of countless other victims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OF DEATH AND DEFIANCE | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

DIED. JOANNE DRU, 74, actress; of respiratory illness; in Beverly Hills, California. Dru starred in the classic westerns Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagon Master; in the early 1960s she played a New Yorker running a New Mexico dude ranch in the short-lived TV series Guestward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Sep. 23, 1996 | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

...have come to Harvard after logging 24 years of teaching at the University of Minnesota. At that institution the Department of French was one of 45 departments in the College of Liberal Arts. Forty-nine thousand students ambulated over a space that occupied the two sides of the Mississippi River and that, as a commuter campus, turned into a alien zone every evening. The campus is bordered by I-94, the east-west highway that goes from Chicago to Seattle. Around the University were erected--I recall from the center field of countless softball games in the local summer leagues...

Author: By Thomas C. Conley, | Title: From the 'U' to the 'H' | 9/20/1996 | See Source »

...Lowell House is actually floating in the ground water of the Charles River...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Lowell Flood Causes Water Damage | 9/19/1996 | See Source »

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