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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disarray right now," says Branegan. "They shot themselves in the foot on guns and Kosovo, and they don?t want to hand the Democrats another issue for 2000." When it comes to touchy-feely stuff like Grandma and her heart pills, Clinton has it all over them -- and they know it. With that House majority looking thinner than ever, Republicans -- who would like to give back a lot of the surplus in tax cuts -- have learned that when they try to shout Clinton down, they lose. Kick up a little fuss and hammer out a deal, and they can save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Serves Up a Tasty Medicare Treat | 6/29/1999 | See Source »

...asked him to defend his rock opera about Mormonism--and I panicked. It's not that I was intimidated by Osmond's fame so much as I knew he had been working out a lot for a Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat video. Plus, I didn't know if Mormons had any special powers, the way Scientologists have with lawsuits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop Cursing...and Start Living! | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

Since I moved to New York City, I've found myself cursing in front of people I don't know and then worrying about whether they were offended for the rest of the conversation. Strangely, when people curse in front of me, I find them cool and self-confident. Maybe cursing isn't the issue here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stop Cursing...and Start Living! | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...Loony Party and the country's longest-serving party leader; of suicide by hanging; in London. Though he was never elected, the former rock-'n'-roll singer irritated scores of somber candidates by running in some 40 political races--often in gold lame. His slogan? "Vote for insanity. You know it makes sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 28, 1999 | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...dislocated millions of Central Africans in the past decade have also made gorillas more vulnerable to depredations. "Even now," says Amy Vedder of the Wildlife Conservation Society, "significant portions of gorilla habitat are unreachable by conservation forces because of the continued fighting. Until that stops, we won't even know what we've lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Meat in Africa | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

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