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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, he argues, the current DNA databank istoo small, and second, it is unclear how muchattention should be paid to ethnicity whenmatching samples...

Author: By Sandra S. Park, | Title: Course Explores Forensic Medicine | 11/16/1993 | See Source »

...silverware and immaculate marble, and the vehemence with which he impressed this concern upon others, would have favorably influenced the quality of the filming and the musical accompaniment for the film. While the lighting may have been well-designed conceptually, the image on the screen is often imprecise and unclear. The music also accomplishes nothing more than a gesture. Two themes dominate, one an expensive, lyrical motif, which appears in all the places one would expect it, and the other a rapid undulating figure which may have indicated tension when Prokofiev employed it in the "Fiery Angel" but now only...

Author: By Bernadette A. Meyler, | Title: Of Lords and Lost Glory | 11/11/1993 | See Source »

...radio station's transmitter has been housed in Holyoke Center for over a decade. It is unclear whether the interference which first-years are complaining about has increased this year...

Author: By Jonathan A. Lewin, | Title: WHRB Jams Airwaves | 11/9/1993 | See Source »

...unclear if Packwood's diaries are primarily private musings or notations about his public life, like the journals of Ronald Reagan and George Bush. Even if Packwood's diaries contain a considerable number of personal entries, some scholars argue, the writings are not automatically protected. "You have to show some constitutional immunity, some privilege against self-incrimination or free speech or freedom of association," says Jesse Choper, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. "As a general proposition, a court can subpoena records that contain reference to criminal conduct." Such legalistic caveats cannot fail to crimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Thanks for the Memories | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

While it is unclear if the U.S. strategy is to divide and conquer or divide and coax, Haiti's junta is prepared either way. Boasts a member of the high command: "We can play with that nicely." Indeed, Haiti's strongmen appear to enjoy "playing" with the Clinton brigades. A Cedras adviser claims that when the military agreed to negotiate with Aristide at Governors Island in New York last July, "the whole thing was a smokescreen." He continues, "We wanted to get the sanctions lifted. That's why we went along. But we never had any intention of really agreeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: With Friends Like These | 11/8/1993 | See Source »

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