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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mature while the Todd Bowdens of the world, striving after justice, are hopelessly naive. Toward the end of the movie, a Holocaust survivor spots Dussander, who, it turns out, killed his wife and his two daughters. The man hurries away and falls to his knees crying. The near-silent dignity of the man's role is undercut by the way the movie seems to want to characterize him. While Dussander, with a grey beard and wire-rimmed glasses, is a picture a masculine restraint, this man, with bald head and flabby features, sobbing hopelessly at the horror...

Author: By John T. Meier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Nazis Lurk in Stephen King's Suburbs | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...perplexed by the reaction of many feministleaders. They have been silent, silent as neverbefore," she said. "Feminism has never been aboutpartisanship...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Whitman Improvises Inflammatory Speech | 10/30/1998 | See Source »

...would normally ask for a moment of silence [to remember them], Jason B. Phillips '99, the show's host for the third straight year and vice president of BSA told the crowd Friday, "but we known they weren't silent men, so give...

Author: By Roberto Bailey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BSA Rocks Lowell Hall in 'Apollo' Event | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...steely hand of control is also reaching back out into the political arena. The upbeat talk of new openness during the Clinton visit in June has fallen silent. Surveillance of dissidents has been increased, and in September police detained activists in four provinces for trying to legally register the China Democratic Party, which would have been the country's first opposition political group. Last week President Jiang Zemin issued a call to improve Communist Party control at the village level. This was a far cry from the village elections China holds, sometimes hinting that they are the first step toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Missing Pieces | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Silent Nights...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Make Love Connections | 10/23/1998 | See Source »

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