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Farther afield and five years after the war, other coalition members watch Iraq through a more complex lens. Gratitude for defeating Saddam back then is tempered today by new interests and demands. Turkey's Islamist government is keen to revive relations with its old trading partner. Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are mindful of growing fundamentalist and dissident oppositions that demand Muslim solidarity above all. Frustration over the lack of peace progress colors the reaction elsewhere in the Arab world. Fearing the impact of a real rift, Kuwaiti officials fanned out to make sure the rest of the gulf understood their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AGONY OF VICTORY | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Despite the scores of analysts, the latest technology and hungry, keen-eyed stock pickers, something went wrong with Fidelity's fund management in the past couple of years. In 1993, 84% of its diversified U.S. equity funds outperformed the market; in 1994 about 51% did; last year the figure dropped to a paltry 21%. So far in 1996, 29% have done better than the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NED JOHNSON AND FIDELITY: THE MONEY MACHINE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Fidelity's response has been to match up managers more closely with the funds' stated aims, so that someone who is keen on small stocks is actually running a small-stock fund. The company will also oversee its fund managers more closely. They used to be divided into four groups for supervision; now they will be divided into eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NED JOHNSON AND FIDELITY: THE MONEY MACHINE | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...performer, Miller combines boundless energy with a keen sense for the outlandishly funny. While many have found Miller's nudity in this and other pieces offensive, there is no doubt that his body is vital to the sexual frankness of his art. From the moment he affectionately tells the audience that they remind him of a bed of pubic hair, to when he masturbates with a piece of Valencia orange stuck in his mouth, to the climactic moment when he orgasms to Handel's "Messiah," Miller is a paragon of eros, humor and theatricality packed into one vital, often naked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Out of the Closet, Endlessly Rocking at the BCA Festival | 9/26/1996 | See Source »

...first half, the women played soccer more like an art rather than open warfare. Razor-sharp passes, dazzling footwork and keen field vision were all part of the palette of the masterpiece called Harvard women's soccer...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: Stauffer, W. Soccer Top B.C. | 9/25/1996 | See Source »

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