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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also try to separate him from other possible Republican presidential candidates who are pitching a flat tax or a national sales tax program...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alexander Stumps for Tax Reform | 9/11/1998 | See Source »

...plenty of time to learn. And even Kournikova, a would-be movie star, may be learning a bit of discretion. In Montreal for a tournament two weeks ago, she eschewed all talk about boyfriends, tattoos or fashion. Instead, attempts to bring forth the infamous Anna attitude were met with flat, seemingly programmed remarks: "I'm just here to play tennis." Says Leand: "She's been told to tone down. She's trying to change the image she's cultivated." And that includes abandoning her old managers at IMG. Advantage International, which represents Kournikova's 28-year-old "good friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Are You Calling An Old Lady? | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...alone in a dark room with the Queen of Hip-Hop. Back up. Rewind. There was light when you arrived; when you got here it was still before nightfall, and the New Jersey sky was the flat bluish-gray of an old fluorescent light. Riding in your car in the half-light, you came to a comfortable brick house on a comfortable, suburban, Truman Show-ish street; walking up, the door wasn't locked, it wasn't even closed, and it creaked open wider when you knocked. This ain't Compton, this ain't the Queensbridge projects, but this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs In The Key Of Lauryn Hill | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

With his exquisite, jeweled miniatures, Gunesekera bears the same relation to a Rushdie that, say, his tiny, teardrop island does to multifarious India. He favors elliptical, charged fragments that show drifters caught between the "flat, newly built motorways" of England, "empty as the moon itself," and an island they can sustain only in memory and illusion. "I know how to live with only a modem and a slip of plastic," says his wandering narrator at the end of this deeply melancholy and beautiful book, "but with each jolt I find I yearn for a story without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegy and Affirmation | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

...provides a level of safety and comfort--until it blows. Uniroyal's new NailGuard tires, on the market this month, come with an inner lining made from a sticky rubber compound that automatically reseals the tire after nail punctures up to three-sixteenths of an inch wide. Unlike "run-flat" tires, which cost hundreds of dollars extra, NailGuards cost just $10 more per tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Technology Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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