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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consumes all other emotions, and certainly conquers reason. It relegates all other claims on our time or on our energy to the margins--if it doesn't wholly destroy them. As soon as love is recognized for itself, it unleashes a recklessness that can vitiate everything else we hold dear...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Love's End | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Enough of a disaster to topple its 49-year-old communist regime? Or to scare its reclusive "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, into a last-gasp invasion of South Korea? Last week Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect to the South, rattled nerves with a warning that Kim's million-man army was preparing for a suicidal attack. What's more, the North "is capable of scorching" South Korea and Japan with nuclear and chemical weapons, according to an article published by South Korea's largest daily newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, which secretly obtained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: READY TO IMPLODE? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. JEAN ROBERT Quebec City, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1997 | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Pleasant associations flood my mind as I think of my dear treat. Ice cream reminds me of summer, my favorite season. I love the warmth of the sun; nature is stunning during the summer months. Summer is the season of freedom--from school, heavy clothing and colds. Ice cream is the quintessential food of summer. Eating ice cream allows me to literally taste summer as I snack in my kitchen or my dorm room...

Author: By Melissa ROSE Langsam, | Title: The Eighth Wonder of the World | 4/26/1997 | See Source »

...grandfather, the cautious reformer Alexander II, been assassinated by populists? The Czarina enthusiastically egged on his autocratic posturing, and when her grandmother, Britain's Queen Victoria, wrote tactfully to suggest that a queen must work hard to win the love of her subjects, she replied, "You are mistaken, my dear grandmama...Here we do not need to earn the love of the people. The Russian people revere their Czars as divine beings, from whom all charity and fortune derive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THE TYRANNY OF STUPIDITY | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

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