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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...level talks, Israeli and Palestinian leaders have reached agreement -- to go home and keep talking, and then to return to Washington in October and talk some more. The White House Monday was clearly hoping to revive the moribund peace process and give President Clinton a foreign policy achievement to crow about. But the only concrete step to come out of the initiative was that Madeleine Albright (to her thinly veiled irritation) will fly the Middle East with Dennis Ross on October 6 to nudge talks along before Arafat and Netanyahu return to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Talks About Talks | 9/28/1998 | See Source »

...plane, Clinton worked on the New York Times crossword puzzle. At one point he sat back and smiled, bemused at 46 down, a four-letter word for "meal for the humble?" "Well," he said, "here's one that's appropriate for today." (Answer: crow.) When the plane touched down, the crowds were waiting, eager and therapeutic, waving handmade signs that called WELCOME BACK and MV LOVES BILL. At the bottom of the steps to greet him with a bear hug when Air Force One touched down in Edgartown, Mass., was Vernon Jordan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill Clinton: I Misled People | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...self-deception of the people. Wittingly or unwittingly, they tell us that which we have asked them to tell us." Ergo, we have all been enablers for Bill Clinton. Poll after poll reveals a populace that doesn't want to know the awful truth. "Lie to me," sings Sheryl Crow, "and I'll promise to be true." Bok says that because we expect to hear hypocrisy from our leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lies My Presidents Told Me | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

Injecting a deadly toxin into your face may sound ill advised, but the doses are slight--usually 15 to 60 units, vs. the 3,000 required to kill somebody. In addition to smoothing worry lines, Botox is used to erase crow's feet and furrows between the eyebrows. While results are relatively short-lived (four to six months), any unintended side effects--a droopy eyelid, say--eventually go away too. This is good for doctors as well as patients. "By the time somebody consults a lawyer," says Dr. Monte Keen of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Deadpan Look | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...literally) of votes you've sent us by mail, e-mail time100@time.com and through our website time.com) We also again convened a panel of luminaries with Charlie Rose as host, which was broadcast on his great PBS show; this one, at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, included Sheryl Crow, Rob Reiner, Anna Deavere Smith, our art critic Robert Hughes and Time Inc.'s editor-in-chief, Norman Pearlstine. Then, in a series of occasionally contentious (but stimulating) meetings, we sat down to choose a final list of 20 with our partners at cbs News, who are producing an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Second 20: This installment of the TIME 100 was harder | 6/8/1998 | See Source »

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