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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nowhere are neo-Nazi outbursts more unsettling than in Germany. In one week in May, German authorities recorded the beating of a Zairian asylum seeker in Halle, the torching of a Turkish kindergarten near Bonn, the vandalizing of a Jewish cemetery near Wurzburg, five arson fires at a refugee shelter in Hauzenberg and the arrests of 26 neo-Nazis for chanting "Sieg Heil!" during a party in a Berlin suburb. Such occurrences have become so commonplace they rarely make the front pages and are simply considered a routine part of the German political landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: D-DAY: Fascism | 6/6/1994 | See Source »

...fought against for so long. Leading a liberation struggle is a task fundamentally different from heading a government; Mandela will no longer seek to bring a system down but to build one up. Yet his style of leadership is suited to his new task, for he is a practiced seeker of unity and consensus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nelson Mandela: The Making of a Leader | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

Donsia Strong a member of the Domestic PolicyCouncil staff, said work in politics alsofurnishes valuable connections for thegovernmental job-seeker...

Author: By Christopher R. Mcfadden, | Title: Panel Talks of Careers For Minorities in D.C. | 3/1/1994 | See Source »

...Laura Dern work well together with their biting sarcasm and confidence in much the same kind of dynamic that Eastwood and Rene Russo depicted in "In the Line of Fire." The Clint "man-of-action" character has certainly progressed from the self-possessed, out-for-himself, ruthless justice seeker of his "Dirty Harry...

Author: By Deborah E. Kopald, | Title: Not Quite Perfect | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

Billy Graham turned 75 this week, an occasion for some reckoning of a life and career full of blessings and contradictions. Everyone has a preferred ; description. George Bush called him "America's pastor." Harry Truman called him a "counterfeit" and publicity seeker. Pat Boone considers him "the greatest person since Jesus." Fundamentalist leader Bob Jones III says Graham "has done more harm to the cause of Christ than any other living man." Biographer William Martin calls him "an icon not just of American Christianity but of America itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God's Billy Pulpit | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

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