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Jon Cummings March 9, 2009 3He may have called for “a kinder, gentler nation,” but the first year of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, 1989, turned out to be Ground Zero for the Culture Wars. It was the year of
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Ken Shane June 18, 2008 3From a place apart Morpheus, God of dreams, awakes The artist Robert Mapplethorpe died from complications of AIDS in 1989. According to his great friend, Patti Smith, “His mortal suffering was so profound that
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