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So the Palestinian leader sat in Gaza brooding on his next move. The U.S. phoned with an assortment of "bridging" proposals--complicated custodial arrangements dividing holy-site sovereignty with the U.N., with Islamic representatives, even with God. According to a Palestinian negotiator, Arafat angrily told Clinton, "If you want to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Many Minds of Arafat | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

All the while, Milosevic remained out of sight, whereabouts unknown. His suburban palace looked eerily empty as it stood guarded by a single soldier. Rumors flew that the boss was holed up in a bunker in eastern Serbia or already on a cargo plane to Belarus. In fact, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of Milosevic | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

How to read and why. Why read The Great Gatsby? To punish oneself with the fact that while wishing life to be eternally renewable, eternally correctable, one knows--in the silent rooms of one's ridiculous mansions on the sea, brooding over the drunken parties and the Ain't We...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Old Great Gatsby, Post-Olympics Blues | 10/16/2000 | See Source »

There has always been a seriously dark side to John Hiatt's music; songs such as "Icy Blue Heart" or the sultry brooding of most of "Walk On," his vastly underrated 1995 release, are permeated with a sense of dread that his more humorous, upbeat material never entirely dispels. While...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bringing Down the House | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

Urbania benefits greatly from its director and stars, who anchor the film to a brooding thoughtfulness that could easily have been abandoned in less ambitious hands. In his directorial debut, Shear demonstrates a talent for innovative storytelling, weaving together scenes that both explain and add to Charlie's emotional turmoil...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dark City: Depth and Dourness Abound in Urbania | 9/29/2000 | See Source »

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