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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when monsters ravaged Europe. But that is Blair's point. In war as in peace, Anne's friends showed a bravery they might well shrug off as simple human decency. This harrowing, inspiring film--an antidote to Holokitsch--is their testament. It alerts us that villainy is the rank soil in which heroism can flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SAINTS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

...flashing his broad grin, standing in the well of the U.S. House of Representatives, addressing a joint meeting of Congress. And they see him moving on to other world capitals to take a bow as the head of a distinct, democratic and economically powerful state on Chinese soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TODAY HONG KONG, TOMORROW TAIWAN | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...after much study and research, that it was an early work by...Michelangelo. Once a sufficient number of other experts had given their support to this attribution, the announcement was made that transformed, at least tentatively, a bit of bric-a-brac into the only Michelangelo sculpture on U.S. soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATTENTION NAME DROPPERS | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...Chechens, captured 28, and freed 82 hostages after besieging Pervomaiskoye, a hamlet in far-off Dagestan. "We have taught Dudayev a sound lesson," Yeltsin said, referring to Chechen separatist leader Jokhar Dudayev. Now, Yeltsin threatened, Russia will hit more rebel strongholds "to put an end to terrorism on Russian soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MR. YELTSIN'S UGLY WAR | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

Washington privately scolded Bosnia and Croatia for failing to rid Bosnian soil of foreign fighters by last Friday's deadline. The U.S. is angry that Croatia has allowed some of its troops to remain inside Bosnia, and even more rattled that the Bosnian government has allowed half of the some 600 foreign mujahedin it believes were in the country to remain behind. The Pentagon fears anti-American terrorists are hidden within their ranks. Washington has threatened to cut off arms and military training for Bosnian forces if the Islamic freedom fighters aren't booted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEEK: JANUARY 14-20 | 1/29/1996 | See Source »

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