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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tangible efforts the country has made to pay for its sins. For a start, the Japanese government in 1999 gave $414 million in development aid directly to China?far more than China receives from any other country. And in 1995, Japan set up the Asian Women's Fund, a semi-private charity to collect money for women forced into sexual slavery by the military. Still, even the fund's director, Mizuho Matsuda, remains unimpressed. "Japan has not done enough," she complains, "although it's incorrect to say Japan has done nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black Death | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...Henman, that most English of tennis players, is lionized for being Wimbledon’s perpetual semi-finalist. That he has never reached the final—for goodness sake, this year he was even outperformed by David Nalbandian who, before the tournament, was known to no one except (perhaps) his mother—is viewed as irrelevant. Damn it, he’s English and his father has an impressive range of blue blazers. Which is what tennis is about after...

Author: By Anthony S.A. Freinberg, | Title: Britain's Commonwealth Shame | 8/16/2002 | See Source »

...Show,” a variety show organized by campus semi-celebs B.J. Avarell and B.J. Novak, is hosted by national semi-celeb and former “Full House” star Bob Saget. The show features numerous genitalia jokes, the voice of Aladdin, the Disney cartoon character, and tomfoolery the likes of which haven’t been seen in these parts since the previous year’s “BJ Show...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Years of Harvard History: A Timeline | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

...want to put your efforts where they’re most needed, and that’s often internationally,” Yasin says. “[But] I want to live a semi-normal life. We’ll see how it all works...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Man Behind the ‘Jihad’ Speech: Senior Zayed Yasin | 6/6/2002 | See Source »

While others such as 2000 Class Day speaker Conan C. O’Brien ’85 cut their teeth writing for the Harvard Lampoon, Franken was rejected from the semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Oh The Things He Knows | 6/5/2002 | See Source »

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