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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fellow with leading-man looks play so many variations on the upper-class twit. Last year, besides his suavely manic turn in Four Weddings, he was seen as the prim prelate in the Australian soft-core Sirens and as an hors d'oeuvre to a sexually voracious woman in Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon. Now three more Grant films are in the U.S. malls: he is the lead in Nine Months and An Awfully Big Adventure and a supporting player in The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain...
Milosevic: Bosnia and Herzegovina was illegally proclaimed as an independent state and recognized. That recognition was like when the Roman Emperor Caligula appointed his horse as a Senator: they recognized a state that never existed before. The Serbs there said, "We want to stay within Yugoslavia. We don't want to be second-class citizens." And then the conflicts were started by Muslims, no doubt. And the Serbs, in defending themselves, were always better fighters, no doubt. And they achieved results, no doubt. But please, we were insisting on peace. The international community gave premature recognition first of Slovenia...
HOSPITALIZED. JOSEPH CARDINAL BERNARDIN, 67, head of the Chicago Roman Catholic diocese; for the removal of malignant tumors in the liver and pancreas as well as a cancerous kidney and lymph node; in Maywood, Illinois. Bernardin faces extensive chemotherapy and radiation treatments...
Patrick Teer was a child of war, brought into the world just as the Troubles were transforming his Roman Catholic neighborhood of North Belfast into a battle zone. Yet Teer, now 20, relishes the memories from those turbulent times. He recounts the "fun" of throwing rocks at the British patrols, the drama of street demonstrations and the exhilaration of getting chased by cops. "There was always something going on in those days," he recalls. And unless luck turned sour, kids like Teer survived with their body unscathed. Their futures, however, were more precarious...
Raised in a Roman Catholic household in Queens, New York, Mapplethorpe repudiated his parents and his religious upbringing. From an early age he felt "magic" in his fingers but struggled for a way to use it. He attended Pratt Institute in New York City and eventually fell into photography, even though it was the lifelong hobby of his father, whom he detested...