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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sanctions since mid-1998 against UNITA's diamond dealing have had little effect. Canada's U.N. ambassador, Robert Fowler, head of the Angolan sanctions committee, now has two panels of experts investigating UNITA's sanctions-busting operations and searching for a way to plug the embargo's holes. Fowler plans to put expert monitors in key trading centers to identify gems that could emanate from UNITA-held areas. He will also put U.N. customs officials at points in Africa where UNITA might move diamonds, money or weapons. At the same time, human-rights and environmental lobbyists have been pushing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diamonds In The Rough | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

Amazingly, there is. Charles Seife's Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking) is the more accessible of the two. (The other book, The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero [Oxford], while philosophically deeper, is self-consciously obscure; its author, Robert Kaplan, writes in Zen koans and could have penned the Fendi tag line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Sexy Is Chalk Dust? | 12/6/1999 | See Source »

...Robert Reeder, a 6'7, 240-pound power forward, and Chris Williams, a 6'4, 210-pound small forward, lead the team with an average of 5.7 boards per contest apiece. Freshman Scott Long, a 6'6 forward, is also coming off an 8-point, 6-rebound performance in just 16 minutes of action against Coast Guard on Monday...

Author: By Brian E. Fallon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Basketball Takes on Navy` | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

Going to an A.R.T show always brings with it a certain air of the carnivalesque. Artistic Director Robert Brustein has assembled an astonishingly innovative team of theater technicians, and they're usually over-eager to flex their muscles. Ivanov is certainly not without its own bag of tricks. But Yeremin never lets these tricks develop into a full-fledged side-show. And how could they? Yeremin's staging and visual landscaping of Chekov's play is so breath-taking that we cannot be distracted from it. In Yeremin's hands, Ivanov on stage becomes as lush as Dr. Zhivago...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Russian vs. Russian: Ivanov Revisited | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...film's heart is the forced relationship between two dramatically different residents of the same New York apartment complex. Robert De Niro is Walt Koontz, a bigoted former cop, while Philip Seymour Hoffman is Rusty, a drag queen desperate for a sex change. When Walt suffers a stroke while trying to foil a robbery, he reluctantly turns to Rusty for singing lessons as therapy. Needless to say, the one-time enemies learn there's more to each other than meets...

Author: By By DANIEL A. zweifach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wasted Talent Makes Flawless a Drag | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

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