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Chalk it up to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's charm offensive. The Libyan leader has not only agreed to cooperate with the Pan Am trial; he has also signaled through official and unofficial channels that he is ready to do business with Washington. For starters, he has booted a number of radicals out of his country, including the infamous Abu Nidal. It may come as a surprise to those who remember the '80s--when Libya was implicated in the bombing of a discotheque in Germany that killed two American servicemen--to hear a senior U.S. official say, "At this moment, [Gaddafi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Libya Wants In | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

McCarthy was a gifted minor writer with a penetrating mind and, for all her coldness, considerable charm. She had the treacherous habit of putting real people (friends, enemies, ex-husbands), thinly disguised, into her fiction--a matter, she said, of baking real plums into an imaginary cake. Her unusual compulsion to tell the truth could also be an instrument of vicious distortion. The technique proved lucrative with The Group, her best-selling 1963 novel of her classmates at Vassar and their subsequent lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Portrait of a Dark Lady | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...story using up all that space? In this day and age of unlimited Internet access and an explosion in the number of cable- and satellite-TV channels available, I would expect you to take the lead with in-depth, responsible reporting of important news events that transcend the bubbly charm of Tinseltown. VALENTIN VASILEV Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 27, 2000 | 3/27/2000 | See Source »

...right for the presidency--that he is someone who possesses the mystical capacity to set a clear agenda and persuade others to follow it. It is in this respect that Bush most sees himself to be like Ronald Reagan: an optimist with a simple set of goals and the charm to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Gore and Bush Think Of Each Other | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

Besim Kadriu still keeps that photo in his wallet as a lucky charm, for while some people would opt for death rather than disfigurement, he considers himself a fortunate man. For one thing, a couple of centimeters farther back and that Serb bullet would have hit his brain. For another, he was reunited with Valbona and survived for three months in the care of relatives. He was still avoiding mirrors when the Kosovo Force peacekeepers arrived. But luckiest of all--and thanks to the efforts of an American doctor and a British military medic with a bag full of electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Face Of War | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

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