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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...special ad hoc tribunals run by the United Nations, one for Bosnia, the other for Rwanda, are charged with the unenviable task of meting out justice to those accused of war crimes, and are frustrated by a lack of resources and cooperation from various countries. Despite these problems, the UN will convene a special conference in Rome this summer to try to work out the final details for a proposed International Criminal Court (ICC) for genocide and war crimes...
WISE presents role models to the middle schoolers in workshops, introducing the girls to various professions and fields of study...
...prosthetic legs into a seven-by-seven foot hole in the ground which is then covered with dirt by an excavator. Meanwhile, four monitors on either side of the hole display videotaped images concerning Merriman's personal search into what happens in the afterlife. The images, shot at various angles, include her little brother and sister playing, newly planted flowers, and views of unusual objects associated with death rituals, such as fabulously-designed coffins and factory-packaged embalming products. Concurrent with these video images, the viewer hears a variety of audio including professional psychics discussing the afterlife status of four...
...also continued a discussion from their March meeting about text-book prices at the Coop. John Paul Rollert '00 and other council members surveyed textbook prices at various universities and found that books were 10 percent more expensive at the Coop on average...
Money, in its various forms, is one of the main subjects of noir: how people get it, use it, keep it, lose it, steal it, and above all kill for it. The world of noir is populated by gangsters, heiresses and thieves. The detective's work is usually motivated more by the promise of hard cash than anything else, though there are exceptions (notably Ellroy's haunted policemen in The Big Nowhere and The Black Dahlia). Now, as in the '40s when noir was at its peak, the economy is booming in an uprecedented way. Perhaps the consequences of money...