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...week denying them. To students of royal families, all the signs of marital strain are there. The couple manage to make a pretty picture when together in public, but they are together less and less. Away from each other, they are unable to do anything but complain about their mate. Whether they patch it back together, and quickly, could go a long way toward determining who will be the next President--or at least the Democratic nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Marriage Be Saved? | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...what are we to make of the scientific study that came out last week showing how women let their biological calendar choose their mate? Maybe this: no matter how highly evolved we think we are, at some level the female of the species, like the male, is still a slave to the brain's prehistoric hardwiring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: If It's Tuesday, You Must Be Tarzan | 7/5/1999 | See Source »

...Jeremy will learn to drink from a cup, and Marc's wife Karen will page him with the news. It is the day Atkinson, 28, will call old friends out of the blue, uncharacteristically skip lunch and return a long-ago borrowed book to a Maryvale Precinct squad mate--a book on street survival, with a section on ambushes. And then he will ask his sergeant if he can be freed from radio calls to keep an eye on a west Phoenix dive that is a magnet for drug dealers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death On The Beat | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...violently in a leopard attack; a baby gorilla is killed by the same leopard, Sabor; the grieving gorilla mother Kala (voiced by Glenn Close) discovers the humans' corpses and their living child; she saves the child from Sabor and decides to rear the human as her own; Kala's mate Kerchak (Lance Henriksen) gruffly, suspiciously accedes to her wish. All this--basically, the start of Robinson Crusoe and the Moses story--is told in a few minutes, with the deftest narrative brushstrokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Him Tarzan, Him Great | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Gore's interest in the Balkans goes back long before the current crisis. While still in Congress, he was denouncing Slobodan Milosevic on the Senate floor when few Americans had even heard of him; in his first week as Bill Clinton's running mate, he pressed the Arkansas Governor to make the Balkans a foreign policy priority. But now the whole endeavor is playing out in peculiarly personal terms for Gore: the success of a Kosovo peace plan will bear directly on his run for the presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making A Deal: Gore's Role: Deep In The Details | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

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