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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moscow gave the impression that it had been caught unawares, but it might be more accurate to say that officials turned a blind eye. Last August, for instance, the Central Committee responded to peaceful protests in the Baltics with stern warnings. But the simultaneous railroad blockade of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh by Azerbaijanis met with official silence. Armenian activists in Moscow claim that in the weeks leading up to the crisis, they bombarded Gorbachev, the KGB and the Interior Ministry with telegrams and letters warning of an imminent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Zone | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...choice, too). It's a shame that something so trivial as lighting should at all stand in the way of education here at Harvard. Come on librarians, Mr. FAS (whoever you are), Derek Bok or whoever else, let's find an economical way to provide better lighting. Jeffrey R. Stern...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: En`light'enment at Harvard | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

...neither prove God nor disprove him, whether he be Einstein's Old One, the architect of the cosmos, or Michelangelo's stern anthropomorphic censor of our morals. Many of us, including clerics of all faiths, think it unlikely that an all-wise creator would choose for himself the male form of a primate so close genetically to a chimpanzee that some taxonomists would include the pair in the same genus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Dissent, Dogma and Darwin's Dog | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

...want to organize a religion club in extracurricular time, the school should get out of the way." Many parents and educators believe the distinction is not so evident. "In many cases, student religious groups want the sanction of the school and a captive audience to preach to," argues Marc Stern, one of Westside's lawyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Prayers in The Schoolhouse? | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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