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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Alwaleed demonstrated his grasp of American business tactics when he launched the first successful hostile takeover of a bank in Saudi Arabia, winning the United Saudi Commercial Bank. Alwaleed believes the takeover made his name in Saudi Arabia while simultaneously giving him a vantage point for branching out into other businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRINCE ALWALEED: THE PRINCE AND THE PORTFOLIO | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...global one. "No country or society is safe from this new challenge to basic human security," insisted U.N. General Assembly President Hennadiy Udovenko. Especially not when half of those infected around the world are under the age of 25. As long as a cure continues to be beyond our grasp, World AIDS Day serves as a warning to the young - no-one's safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Dying of Ignorance | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...summarize, just so that everyone is on the same level of understanding: Real guys talk dirty, drive badly, are physically violent and drive cool, if slightly dangerous, vehicles. At this point, I'm beginning to get a grasp of this "guy" business...

Author: By Talia Milgrom-elcott, | Title: Discovering Manliness in Mather | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...gifted and naturally charming John Kennedy was born into a wealthy family with a gnawing ambition to be embraced by the American elite. It cast him in torment between his open instincts for sex and power and his refined grasp of honorable service in a dangerous world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSY IN BED, BUT ALSO IN BERLIN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...recently got the transcripts of the Kennedy tapes from the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, and there Kennedy is the serene leader who guides the nation away from nuclear conflict. He is the man with the best grasp of how wars arise from miscalculation and weakness, the man who turns aside his bellicose warriors. Now we have Seymour Hersh and his book The Dark Side of Camelot, an exhausting catalog of Kennedy's alleged sexual indulgences, cover-ups and unlicensed use of family wealth to buy his office. But there has been--and there is in the Hersh account--something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSY IN BED, BUT ALSO IN BERLIN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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