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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concert began with a solo set by Dylan's more melodiously-voiced counterpart, Paul Simon. On the whole, Simon's live performance did not live up to his recording reputation. His style which seems to border on world-music kitsch, was very treble emphasized and percussion heavy, assuming an almost flippant, less weighty framework. Beginning his set with many of his earlier works, especially many he originally recorded with Art Garfunkel, his renditions of "Mrs. Robinson" and "Bridge over Troubled Waters" were unconvincing testimonies of his solo career. But the latter-day Simon finally came out during less-instrumental tinged...

Author: By Teri Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faith in Bob, Paul as Prophet | 7/30/1999 | See Source »

...matchmakers between Washington and Beijing, yet Lee Teng-hui appears to have inadvertently healed the post-Kosovo rift. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright finally reported a thaw in relations with Beijing ? which have been on ice since the Belgrade embassy bombing ? when she met on Sunday with her Chinese counterpart, Foreign Minister Tang Jiaxuan. Beijing announced that a previously scheduled September summit between Presidents Clinton and Jiang, which had been in jeopardy, would go ahead following a weekend during which the U.S. firmly reiterated its support for the "One China" policy and gently chided Lee?s claim that Taiwan should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taiwan's Grandstanding Set to Heal U.S.-China Rift | 7/26/1999 | See Source »

...despite the moans you will hear from supporters of affirmative action, it may not be such a bad thing. It could force African Americans to rediscover a piece of mother wit: if you want to succeed in America, you have to be twice as prepared as your white counterpart. Anything less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Yourself | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...point is that women are not smart enough to know the difference between the meaning of the words suffrage and suffering. (It goes without saying that any number of men might have responded exactly as the women did.) But for the most part, The Man Show, like its FX counterpart, is less offensive for its sexism--most of which is just silly--than for its comic unoriginality. After all, Howard Stern has been getting strippers and porn stars to say and do outrageously stupid things for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Catering to Cable Guys | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

COIN COLLECTING Congress is contemplating raising the President's salary from $200,000 to $400,000. One day the U.S. head of state may be able to buy his Singaporean counterpart a drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The List | 6/7/1999 | See Source »

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