Word: rulers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Curry also pulls off his role as Farley Claymore, Reinhardt's odious partner, very well. He's as slimy here as he was in "The Three Muskateers," and completely power-mad--a perfect ally for Khan when the would be ruler tries to carry out his plan to take over New York...
...heard the story already, no doubt. Mufasa, a feared but well-liked ruler, his mate Sarabi and their son Simba live together in the seemingly harmonious land of Pride Rock. There's something rotten in the kingdom, though--Mufasa's brother Scar, the younger sibling simply green-eyed (literally) with jealousy of his brother's power...
This week artifacts from the tombs go on display in New York City's American Museum of Natural History, along with a full-size reproduction of the burial site of a ruler called the Warrior Priest, or the Lord of Sipan. The wealth of information gained from the tombs' contents outshines the dazzling finds. Says archaeologist Walter Alva, director of the Museo Nacional Bruning de Lambayeque, who has overseen the excavation since the first days: "Sipan's importance for science transcends the glitter of the gold...
...literary output of Albanian leader Enver Hoxha, the world's most avidly Stalinist ruler until his death in 1985, is broad in reach; a set of his collected works sprawls across a good meter of bookshelf. But the public's appetite never matched the government's passion for printing the dictator's often paranoid musings on Albania's sole true path to proletariat rule and his lonely struggle against nonbelievers. Since the 1991 fall of the communist government, some of Hoxha's tracts have been recycled as housing insulation, but at least 600 tons of the books are moldering expensively...
...same day, President Clinton told the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy that "we cannot solve every such outburst of civil strife or militant nationalism simply by sending in our forces." Europe feels the same way. Belgium, Rwanda's former colonial ruler, lost 10 of its U.N. peacekeepers when the fighting broke out in early April. Said a government spokesman last week: "At the moment, we have no willingness to have contact with the so- called government in Kigali, which consists of a gang of murderers." Neither French troops nor French-equipped African troops are acceptable to the mainly...