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...Powell's military background certainly includes not only extensive experience promoting U.S. interests in such international contexts as NATO and the Gulf War alliance, but also a term as deputy national security adviser that put him at the fulcrum on U.S. diplomatic, military and economic concerns on the world stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will America Still Love Colin Powell? | 1/10/2001 | See Source »

This is the way David Boies, 59, conducts himself in the midst of the biggest case in a professional lifetime of huge cases, with the presidency teetering on the fulcrum of his arguments, with his back not to the wall but nearly through it. He acts as if he were waiting for tea to arrive. "Why should I worry?" he once asked his wife Mary, an accomplished lawyer, during another epic case several years ago. "Because I might lose? That's the worst thing that could happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Get Me Boies! | 12/25/2000 | See Source »

Clinton sees the nation, west Africa's most powerful, as a fulcrum for democracy and capitalism he hopes will spread across the continent. "Your fight is America's fight and the world's fight," Clinton told the National Assembly in his keynote Saturday speech often punctured by applause. But the trip also seemed to act as a political tonic to a president in the twilight of a tenure marred by scandal: He was joyously serenaded by rapturous singers in a cavernous concrete Baptist church Sunday morning, and hailed by tribal chiefs and little children at a tiny village an hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nigeria, Clinton Sees a Work in (Slow) Progress | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...church itself above sin? That question forms the theological fulcrum of conflict within the Catholic Church over the mass of penitence to be delivered Sunday by Pope John Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catholics Divided by Vatican's Mea Culpa | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...time, the '70s seemed fairly awful--oversexed in a brainless way, infected by a fatal mix of narcissism and paranoia. Presidents (Nixon, Ford, Carter) seemed either crooked or clueless. Yet, in Frum's analysis, the hideous '70s were a fulcrum and a rite of passage that changed almost everything and brought us, for good and ill, to where we are. He's right. Much has been gained on the journey. But Frum does not sufficiently reckon what has been lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Unloved Decade | 2/28/2000 | See Source »

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