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...pain of the country," says Sergei Stepashin, the Prime Minister dismissed in Putin's favor when he looked too soft to satisfy Yeltsin's demands. "Putin knew we had no alternative. Otherwise we'd have lost all authority in the country." Suddenly the gray-suited bureaucrat wore tough-guy garb, displaying the iron hand that Russians craved. When Putin coarsely proclaimed that his army would "wipe the terrorists out wherever we find them, even if they are sitting on the toilet," Russians loved it, and his popularity shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Spy Who Came In From The Crowd | 4/3/2000 | See Source »

...GOLF GARB It's not just tee times you can get at TheGolfNetwork.com Click on its eGolfMall button for any sort of golf-related accoutrements you might need, from clubs to shoes--and soon even the requisite cigar. Limited offer: if you blow more than $150 on the site's goodies, you'll get free shipping. Not only can you plan your next golf vacation, but you can also outfit yourself with duds and sticks. Unfortunately, nobody but you can can do a thing about your handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Mar. 6, 2000 | 3/6/2000 | See Source »

...Undoubtedly, however, Spyder gets a thrill out of urban spelunking, and he looks spiffy when he's dressed head-to-toe in dark garb like someone outside of M-80 on a Thursday night. The challenge of climbing aside, Spyder also has to be on the lookout for wandering HUPD. "I was just about to climb up this one fire escape," says Spyder, "when I heard someone yell at me. Naturally, I nonchalantly walked away...

Author: By Kenyon S. Weaver, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Climb Every Mountain, and More: Spiderman Survives in the City | 3/2/2000 | See Source »

...Heating up the home range, the southwest turns super-spicy. Any aspiring fashion hussy's wardrobe should be able to outfit both sides of General Custers' Last Stand. Every yuppie's really a cowgirl at heart. Perfect garb for cow-tipping and shit-kicking: sandblasted jean jackets by Calvin Klein and long denim skirts studded with faux plastic by Christian Dior. Throw on some floral moccasins, beaded earrings, and fringed bell-bottoms for a dynamo ensemble good for the office, a hot date, or an afterschool powwow...

Author: By Candie EE Darling, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Tongue in Sheik | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...portrait: a skinny, bent figure, nut brown and naked except for a white loincloth, cheap spectacles perched on his nose, frail hand grasping a tall bamboo staff. This was one of the century's great revolutionaries? Yet this strange figure swayed millions with his hypnotic spell. His garb was the perfect uniform for the kind of revolutionary he was, wielding weapons of prayer and nonviolence more powerful than guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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