Tuesday, March 23, 1999
The night of the Bard
Romantic comedy trumped war drama and Elizabethan era beat World War II as Shakespeare in Love, an inventive love story, won seven Oscars at the 71st annual Academy Awards in the mecca of western filmdom on Sunday.
India gets its 15 minutes of shame on American television
In what many Indians here found to be a painful but fairly credible depiction of the situation in modern day India, CBS television's highly acclaimed 60 minutes programme on Sunday took a scathing look at the practice of untouchability in India.
NATO on brink of Kosovo strikes -- Holbrooke
United States Balkans envoy Richard Holbrooke said on Monday that NATO was on the brink of launching air strikes against Yugoslav military targets unless Belgrade accepted a NATO peacekeeping force in Kosovo.
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