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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Military coups typically succeed such popular murmurs of dissatisfaction when true societal development does not keep up with political reform. Nigerian citizens cannot afford another military coup, but according to Obasanjo, the real issue is whether the world can afford to pay $30 billion to avoid another military coup in Nigeria. With ambiguities about the future of military institutions in countries such as Nigeria, it would appear that the situation could quickly develop into a blackmail of the global financial assistance system. This is why President Obasanjo's threat to the western world--that if the external debt...

Author: By Dele Ogunseitan, | Title: Na Democracy Man Go Chop? | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...truth to them and will certainly not disappoint any fan of CSNY. It is only that the road that David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young have chosen is not an easy one. They stumble frequently on this new album, but in the moments that they succeed, all is forgiven...

Author: By Carla Mastraccio, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Album Review: Looking Forward to New CSNY? Don't Be So Sure: Ten Years After Their Last Album and 30 Years After | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...Evans notes that in the past, administrators and teachers have assumed that with a lot of choice, kids would succeed. "The result of this shopping-mall high school was that students treated it like a mall and would drop in and out. Too many kids are not successful here, and we are not challenging the academically talented as much...

Author: By Micaela K. Root and Anna M. Schneider-mayerson, S | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Trouble in the House | 10/21/1999 | See Source »

...David's parents, Wanda and Theodore R. Kaczynski, were atheists, working-class intellectuals who valued education and dearly wanted their sons to succeed on a higher plane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Don't Want To Live Long: Ted Kaczynski | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...documentary Cold War, Sir Jeremy Isaacs had it easy. In that show, he could impress the viewer with bombshells (real ones); in Millennium (CNN, Sundays through Dec. 12, 10 p.m. E.T.), he has to astonish us with what we already know. This 10-hour, chronological series doesn't always succeed, but at its best, its hyper welter of history renders the familiar surprising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Quick 1,000 | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

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