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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head of the local mosque, Hakim Hasbulla, 48, tried to hold the mob back, and a TIME correspondent attempted to plead for the man, but the two dozen attackers were beyond reason. Everyone wanted to get in a kick or a cut--it was a badge of pride to have taken part. "I don't agree with this," said Hasbulla immediately afterward, still shaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Descent Into Madness | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...right to die when he wants to. The solution I propose to Cathy is this: what we already have--a quiet, informal, private routine in which families and physicians agree, without fuss and in an unofficial zone below the purview of the law, to withhold further treatment, to cut off nourishment, to shut down the IV, even to administer a little more morphine (a gray area between omission and commission) than would be indicated ordinarily. In other words, to pull the plug, decently and quietly. Result: an easeful, dignified death, without paperwork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time For The Ice Floe, Pop | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...Vikings are currently being led by football's happiest reclamation project, Randall Cunningham, who found God--and receivers who can fly like angels. Having been cut by the Philadelphia Eagles, Cunningham was retired, tending to his marble business, when Green signed him last year as a backup to starter Brad Johnson. When Johnson was injured earlier this season, Cunningham stepped in and started throwing--long. The Vikes have now amassed an imposing record of 11 and 1 and seem poised for the Super Bowl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catching Some Redemption | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Sure, he makes a fine salad dressing, but would you really want PAUL NEWMAN to cut your hair? KEVIN COSTNER says he insisted on it. The scene is from the actors' forthcoming film Message in a Bottle, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel, in which Costner plays Newman's son. "I wanted to stage it the way I remember my dad cutting my own hair," says Costner, who offered his vision to the film's director Luis Mandoki. "These two guys are bachelors and are not willing to invest money in someone cutting their hair--they're not worried about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

NARCO CHIC Fashion is nothing if not aspirational. Slip on a black shift dress--look like Audrey Hepburn! Or don a shirt with images of AK-47s and feel like a Latin American drug trafficker! This is the fantasy being played out by clean-cut men in Mexico who are making popular a dope-inspired high style. After all, it's not a crime to wear a loud shirt in public...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Dec. 7, 1998 | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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