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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With his shrill voice and constant gesticulating, Habibie comes across as an excitable, almost manic character. An Asian leader who has met him says, "He can't listen. He never stops talking." Newspaper publisher Aristides Katoppo remembers joining Habibie for a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister in 1993. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is B.J. Habibie? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

The man is of a complex character. He is a devout Muslim who fasts on Monday and Thursday, even when he is traveling abroad. In 1990 he founded the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals in an attempt to reach out to some of the 87% of the population, including most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Is B.J. Habibie? | 6/1/1998 | See Source »

Phil Hartman did a great Frank Sinatra; he did a great Ed McMahon. He did a great Bill Clinton. But the most common character was one we could only call Phil Hartman: smarmy, oily, eminently superficial. We assumed that was all there was to know about Hartman, that he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Hartman, 1948 - 1998 | 5/28/1998 | See Source »

AL MARTINO Frank Lite. Known less for his singing [2] than for playing Johnny Fontaine, the Sinatra-inspired character in The Godfather.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 25, 1998 | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

Before leaving for Rome, Weakland told TIME he admires John Paul's character, but suggested a theologian could "find ways of relooking" at the Pope's ban on female priests. He plans to state his fear of a schism "in the context of not wanting the Catholic Church to undergo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Firebrand's Valedictory | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

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