Word: set
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...miles of rich cloth. The largest set constructed from scratch since Cleopatra, including a seven-acre palace. Thousands of extras, amongst them children you'd love to take home. A gilded barge gliding through the waters of an enchanted jungle. Well-behaved elephants. All of this headed by the regal, charming, sexy Chow Yun-Fat. Sounds better than the Greatest Show on Earth. However, the shaky basis, unnecessary length and wobbly storyline of Anna and the King denies it a place amongst epic love stories like Ben-Hur and The English Patient...
...court decides that the prolonged pre-trial solitary confinement does indeed infringe on constitutional rights, the case could set a precedent, el-Hage's lawyers said...
...ways, Harvard is race neutral, at least that's been my experience," Gardenhire says. "I had a few bad experiences when I first came, of professors being inappropriate. But I set them straight and I don't work with those people. Race hasn't affected my ability to learn...
However, now that the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has replaced Radcliffe College, the administration has said that it will no longer support programs that, like the Science Alliance, are exclusive to women. Even with the potential aid of the Ann Radcliffe Trust, set up to provide continued financial backing to programs for women after Radcliffe College's closing, few administrators have rallied to the defense of the Science Alliance...
...million in compensation for inadvertently wrecking the country's Belgrade embassy during the Kosovo conflict. In return, Beijing will pay Washington $2.87 million for damage to the U.S. embassy during the ensuing protests in China's capital. "Bombing the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was a terrible mistake that dramatically set back relations with Beijing and fueled China's paranoia about Washington's intentions," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The challenge was to find a compensation amount that would bring closure to the matter while allowing the Chinese to save face, and that's what this deal appears to have...