Word: rule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fourth successive dismissal of an elected government before it completed its term of office, bringing to an abrupt end the democratic process Pakistan's powerful army had itself put into place in 1988 when it reluctantly transferred power to the political leadership following eleven years of military rule...
...Business (former AT&T chairman Robert Allen) but also in show business (Broadway costume designer Tom Broecker), and Wabash was the first college to produce the Pulitzer-prizewinning play about AIDS, Angels in America. At the same time, Wabash's old-fashioned but effective code, "The Gentleman's Rule"--which says the only rule is that students behave like gentlemen--is winning grudging applause at national higher-education conferences...
That straight characters are getting more on-screen same-sex action than gay ones speaks to the bizarre rules surrounding gay sexuality on TV. The first strange rule: gay men are more lovable than gay women. But girl kisses are better than boy kisses--and it's best if at least one girl is straight. Straight actors playing gay (as in Eric McCormack, who plays lawyer Will Truman) go over better than openly gay actors (DeGeneres), and so on. Thus America is apparently ready for implicit fellatio as a punch line or for a foxy hetero babe's experimentation, while...
DIED. JULIUS NYERERE, 77, statesman and Tanzania's first President; of leukemia; in London. Nyerere led his country to independence from British rule in 1961, united 120 ethnic groups into one country, and was its leader for 23 years. He continued until his death to try to unite Africa--most recently by mediating in a civil war in Burundi...
...kids wearing hats spot Detective Dreher in the hall and whip them off; this year there is a no-hat rule. "Thank you, gentlemen," he says. The school doesn't want anyone wearing anything that might identify them as a member of an exclusive group; last year, says an openly gay student, the kids who harassed him the most were known as the White Hatters, after their headgear. The administration also worried about kids' starting to wear gang colors...