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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They found him in 47-year-old Prime Minister Vladimir Putin: his youth, his sportsman's bearing, his precisely phrased and brutally delivered statements--all so different from the doddering Yeltsin and his mangled, half-incomprehensible public utterances. In the past few months, as Russian troops have streamed into Chechnya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Election Surprise | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Walter Milancuk's public-school horror story began early, when his son Derrick spent kindergarten in an overcrowded roomful of students who regularly fought in class and cursed the teacher. Milancuk wanted to transfer Derrick, but his salary as a forklift driver couldn't cover private-school tuition. Yet Milancuk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poor Grade For Vouchers | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

For Einstein, the obvious choice was Stephen Hawking, one of the greatest living theoretical physicists. His classic work, A Brief History of Time, has sold close to 9 million copies and was made into a PBS series that he narrated through his voice synthesizer (he has ALS, known as Lou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Writers For The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

If they remember him at all, most people think of Kaufman as the bashful foreign mechanic on the sitcom Taxi whose salutation "Tenk you veddy much" became a national catchphrase. But a small cult of hard-core fans reveres Kaufman as a performance artist who upended stand-up comedy to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Odd Fellows | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

After months of tracking rumors and talking to Kaufman's family and friends, Alexander and Karaszewski had no clue who the real Andy was or how to structure a screenplay about him. It was only after one of Kaufman's girlfriends told them "there is no real Andy" that they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Odd Fellows | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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