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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Commencement or a celebration of a University anniversary. "To join George Washington and Winston Churchill as the other recipients of such an award conferred at a specially convened convocation...holds great symbolic significance," Mandela said. "The name of an African is now added to those illustrious leaders of the Western world." In his speech, Mandela asked the world to "combat and eradicate its disparities...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Year Flying By: The Moments that Made Us Pause | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Jackson also denounced the "double standard" the U.S. invokes when dealing with humanitarian disasters in Europe and Africa--intervening in Western conflicts, but not those on other continents. He compared the refugee crisis in Sierra Leone, an African nation which has been embroiled in a civil war for several years, to the one in Kosovo...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rev. Jesse Jackson Offers Spirited Words at Kennedy School Class Day | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

Jackson also denounced the "double standard" the U.S. invokes when dealing with humanitarian disasters in Europe and Africa--intervening in Western conflicts, but not those on other continents. He compared the refugee crisis in Sierra Leone, an African nation which has been embroiled in a civil war for several years, to the one in Kosovo...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks Spirited Words at Kennedy School Class Day | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...Satcher followed his childhood dreams. After graduating from More-house College in Atlanta, Ga., he went on to receive both his doctoral and his medical degrees from Case Western Reserve University...

Author: By Erica B. Levy, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Satcher to Invoke Health Lessons Learned from Life Experience | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

...complete half the count by Tuesday -? and by Wednesday night it had tallied only 7 percent. Indonesia?s stock exchange hit a two-year record high on Tuesday, buoyed by the strong showing of opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, but it resumed its slide Wednesday as everyone from opposition leaders, Western election monitors and even by the leader of the military-backed ruling party, President B. J. Habibie, expressed concern over the slow count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Smells Rotten in the State of Indonesia | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

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