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Dates: during 1990-1999
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KUWAIT. Last week's election was called to select a 50-seat National Council that is supposed to develop guidelines for the future of Kuwaiti democracy. Kuwait has been without a parliament since 1986, when the ruling family suspended it. Nonetheless, ex-parliamentarians called for a boycott of the election because they believed the council would be powerless; although government candidates took all 50 seats, only 65% of the electorate voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Islam Ballots for Allah | 6/25/1990 | See Source »

They vote to double their levy on gasoline but only to pay for highways. -- North Carolina and Massachusetts Democrats select their candidates. -- Congressional cold warriors cling to their gospel, but the politics are dubious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page: June 18, 1990 | 6/18/1990 | See Source »

...this why Woody Allen might avoid roller coasters? Does Yo Yo Ma get carsick in a limo en route to the concert? That's not the point, according to Herrmann. With H.B.D.I. results in hand, a manager can select people with different ways of learning, who together will form "a composite whole brain," thus working more efficiently, and creatively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Get Crazy! | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...charged the Senate for several stays in a Minneapolis condominium he owned, and used Senate office-building space to make speeches for pay. Next week, barring a negotiated face-saving arrangement, the Senator will begin a two-week public ordeal -- a politically lethal hearing by the Senate Select Committee on Ethics, which has found "substantial credible evidence" that Durenberger broke the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trials of David Durenberger | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...many continue to criticize Harmon's plan, which has students randomly assigned among one of four houses they select, as merely politically expedient, and not the best alternative...

Author: By Jeffrey C. Wu, | Title: Undergraduate Council | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

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