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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House sees it, the big payoff in BILL CLINTON's trip to China was being able to speak directly to the Chinese people. But while he spoke in English, the masses were listening in Chinese, and the interpretation was not good. Some Chinese academics in the U.S. who listened to the press conference in Beijing say Clinton's polite, subtly worded protest about the loss of life at Tiananmen Square did not come across to ordinary Chinese. Even worse was Clinton's centerpiece speech at Peking University, where the State Department interpreter had major difficulties, breaking off sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The China Trip | 7/27/1998 | See Source »

Cerf--whose father lead the fight to lift the ban against Ulysses in the United State--will speak tonight at 7:30 at the Cronkhite Graduate Center to discuss the book lists with students...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Class Ranks Top 100 Novels of 20th Century | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

...spelled in awkward Hebrew) and above the Castro clothing store (named after either the district of San Francisco or the Cuban dictator or both, given the number of red dresses), I wondered why Israel is populated with so many things American. One potential answer is the most superficial: people speak English here as their second language, as a way to travel the world and to serve their own tourists. The seeping of American foods and names into the culture, then, makes sense, but it should be more uninvited, less sought-after. This explanation justifies the ubiquitous Coca-Cola, but what...

Author: By Adam I. Arenson, | Title: POSTCARD FROM RAANANA | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

...praising the Kuomintang Nationalist Party's Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in front of people who hated her guts. He was promptly admonished by an outraged older gentleman for not doing his homework. Brownback was completely taken aback by the scolding and apologized immediately. That seemed a fair warning to speak with caution and sensitivity in mind...

Author: By Susan Yeh, | Title: POSTCARD FROM TOPEKA | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

...point here is to challenge religions as never before to speak to a very critical issue," she said. "The state of the environment is new for all of us. Traditional religions were not responding...

Author: By Alan E. Wirzbicki, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scholars Study Ecology, Religion | 7/24/1998 | See Source »

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