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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school principal in the early '80s. Nigeria and Sierra Leone were such peaceful countries, and their citizens were so lovely in nature--happy, God-fearing people with a smile and a greeting for everyone. What has happened to this continent? It has lost all its civility and is leaving behind a trail of brutality and sadness everywhere, be it Rwanda, Congo or Sierra Leone. I pray to God to bring back those days to Africa, which still has so much culture to share with this world. Let saner people look in and restore the continent. DEVINDER PUNJWARIA Toronto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Beware, New York! A vote for Hillary is a vote for the downfall of the American Empire. Let's put Bill and Hillary behind us and go forward. ED TAKACS Rosedale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...irony is necessary, besides the fact that without it, I'm unemployable. First of all, irony is much more fun than earnestness. Earnestness is thanking God after scoring a touchdown, while irony is having 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Earnestness is what you hide behind when you have nothing to say. Unless you hide behind irony, which is much cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Irony | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Close behind is a company that never had to worry about eroding its core business or undercutting its work force. ETrade began in 1982 as an online trade service for professionals. In 1996, after current CEO Christos Cotsakos came aboard, the first incarnation of a website that today serves nearly 1.5 million investors was launched. This year, by acquiring several companies, including the largest online bank and a financial-news site, Cotsakos began transforming ETrade from an e-brokerage to an online financial-services supermarket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tales From The E-Commerce Front | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...Gore feeling these days? Never better, if you ask anyone inside his campaign--pumped, working without notes, even taking his jacket off. And those polls, the ones showing the Vice President suddenly running slightly behind Bill Bradley in New Hampshire and in a dead heat with him in New York, or suggesting Bradley is the better at beating George W. Bush? Not to worry. As the glum figures rolled in earlier this month, Gore told a top adviser, "I'm connecting. I feel it. We just gotta keep doing what we're doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Gore's Campaign Went Off the Rails | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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