Word: manning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support a motive for el-Batouti's suicide, personal or political. His family was devastated. "I had accepted his death as a martyr," said his wife Omayma. "Now they have murdered him." Every one of el-Batouti's colleagues, friends and relatives depicts him as a loving family man, a believer but not a fanatic, respected and well off, content with his imminent retirement, a man who had never displayed the least symptom of psychiatric disorder. "He's a guy who wouldn't hurt a fly," says Los Angeles resident Helal el-Sherif, a friend of el-Batouti's, echoing...
...classic Jiang moment--casual, charming, energizing. He is, after all, a man who can recite from memory sections of the Gettysburg Address--in English. His training as an engineer has given him a reverence for technology and a fluency with the idea of an information economy that make him an ideal leader for a Net-ready nation. And his instincts have always been behind Zhu's economic-reform program, despite opposition from conservative heavyweights in the party. Even today he relies on the advice of his American-educated son Jiang Mianheng...
Partly this was the act of a masterly politician. Jiang's amiability reflects a man working hard to avoid offending anyone. It's a kind of sensitivity few Emperors would exhibit, but it is probably tied to the fact that Jiang isn't ruling 15th century China. He's ruling a 21st century nation in which the role of Communist Party leadership is being questioned. Explains Jonathan Pollack, the Rand Corp.'s chief China expert: "Jiang is something of a paradoxical figure... The leadership is very anxious. They have a collective self-esteem problem." Jiang's response...
...Year's gewgaws. No sooner did the milestone begin looming than advertisers began trying to persuade us to, say, associate the Roman numeral 2000--MM--with a certain candy-coated chocolate. Even the Y2K problem has morphed from potential cataclysm to commercial punch line: a Nike ad shows a man going for a jog New Year's morning as the lights flicker out around town, money shoots out of ATMs, people panic in the streets, and an errant missile zooms by overhead. On the one hand, the passing of a thousand years is staggering for a mortal of perhaps...
...little weenie roast. But across the country and the world, people are finding as many reasons to stay in this New Year's Eve as to go out. Most boil down to one thing: other people. With no basis in nature, the passage of a thousand years is a man-made phenomenon, and so are its attendant worries. The question of how you mark this millennium is partly a question of faith--not religious faith so much as faith in humankind. Faith that people can throng by the hundreds of thousands in the world's metropolises without havoc. Faith that...