Posts Tagged ‘the-1990s’

Murdoch’s News Ltd. Rejects TV Piracy Claim in Australia

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

An Australian newspaper’s report that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation had sabotaged competitors in the 1990s was dismissed by the company’s Australian media wing as “laughable.”

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Lillian Bassman, Fashion and Fine-Art Photographer, Dies at 94

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

In the 1990s, reinterpretations of Ms. Bassman’s photographs found a new generation of admirers, and a full-fledged revival of her career ensued, with gallery shows and international exhibitions.

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Cain accuser decides not to speak

Friday, November 4th, 2011

A woman who filed a sexual harassment complaint against Herman Cain in the 1990s will not tell her side of the story in public, her lawyer tells reporters.

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Serb war crimes suspect arrested after years on run

Thursday, May 26th, 2011

Ratko Mladic was the highest-ranking war crimes suspect still at large from the 1990s Balkan wars. He’s charged with genocide, extermination and murder.

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The pursuit of bin Laden

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

When Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States in the 1990s, he argued that if Muslim terrorists hit hard enough, the United States would retreat. The relentless pursuit that led to bin Laden’s death Sunday proved that narrative of American weakness was wrong.

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Local Fox Anchor Spied for FBI

Friday, April 8th, 2011

Two days after CBS News’ Washington bureau chief was revealed to be a former FBI mole, The Smoking Gun reports that a local Fox television anchor also worked as a “friend to the FBI” in the 1990s, going on covert missions. According to bureau memos, a…

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Critic’s Notebook: Emancipating History

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

Signs of slavery abound around Charleston, but until the 1990s they were often missing from museums there.

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Critic’s Notebook: Emancipating History

Shooting councillor urged to quit

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

A south London councillor who shot and wounded a man in the 1990s has been urged to quit after failing to disclose his conviction to the Labour Party.

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Halliburton could face Nigeria charges

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

Charges are possible in a Nigerian investigation into whether Halliburton, the American energy services company, paid bribes to secure a lucrative natural gas project in the 1990s, Nigerian investigators said Friday.

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Classical composer Gorecki dies

Friday, November 12th, 2010

Polish composer Henryk Gorecki, who sold a million copies of his Symphony No 3 in the 1990s, dies aged 76, the country’s national orchestra announces.

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UN to publish Congo rights report

Friday, October 1st, 2010

The UN prepares to publish a controversial report on human rights violations in the DR Congo in the 1990s which has angered Rwanda and Uganda.

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LFO singer dies after battle with cancer

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Rich Cronin of the 1990s boy band LFO, has died, his band member told CNN on Wednesday night.

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Low lake reveals dozens of bodies

Thursday, August 12th, 2010

As many as 50 bodies discovered on the shores of a lake at the border of Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina may be those of Bosnian Muslims who disappeared from a nearby village in the 1990s, officials said.

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