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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ceaseless demands leave him with hard decisions to make. He wants to preach redemption to as many people as possible while he still can: he is already committed to Atlanta, Cleveland, Ohio and Tokyo for next year. Then comes a career climax, a 1995 revival meeting that will span the entire globe at once. In this technological Pentecost, sermons will be translated into dozens of languages and transmitted by satellite TV to about 130 nations -- possibly including mainland China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: God's Billy Pulpit | 11/15/1993 | See Source »

Wits doesn't let the story get too much in the way of his songs. These pieces were recorded over a three-year span: some in conjunction with Wilson's work in Hamburg, some back in the U.S. with Waits' own band. At the core of Wilson's Black Rider is a Faustian tale of a peasant who makes a pact with the devil. The peasant gets a set of magic bullets, thinking they will enable himto win a marksmanship contest and with it, histrue love; however, the devil has different plans,and the poor peasant goes crazy when...

Author: By Seth Mnookin, | Title: Human Oddities | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

Harvard sealed its victory later on in the half with two more goals in the span of 50 seconds: Sophomore Reena Lawande tapped a cross from DeLellis (her eighth assist, tying Yale's Jen Teti atop the Ivy League) into the net at 61:40. Co-captain Meg Berte also earned an assist...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: W. Soccer Crushes Cross, 4-0 | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

When a Senate panel decided to browbeat television executives about television violence this summer, most in the media pooh-poohed the proceedings as a political show. Calling the veiled threats mere posturing, the media declared that once the Senators involved had blown their rhetorical horns for the C-SPAN cameras, the issue would fade away...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: Scaring Up A Simple Crisis | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

...Boston College, three female students were attacked during a three-week span from mid-September to early October, according to The Globe report. The police recorded one sexual assault and two physical assaults on the campus...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: Crime Wave Hits Campuses | 10/26/1993 | See Source »

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