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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that his country?s economy has abruptly become. The usual Asian suspects ?- crony capitalism, lack of financial disclosure and plain old-fashioned corruption ?- are as responsible for Malaysia's fall from grace as any of the wretched excesses of Western investment capitalists. But now, Mahathir has in mind for Malaysia a resurgence that not only restores to his people their achingly recent prosperity but forces a cataclysmic readjustment of the way the West would have emerging markets run. In short, Mahathir Muhammed dearly wants to teach the West a lesson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Malaysia?s Desperate Gamble | 9/4/1998 | See Source »

...warning systems may not seem so relevant at a time like this, and 50 tons represents barely a quarter of Russia's plutonium stockpile. Even so, it is a telling sign of the deepening crisis that the U.S. is keeping the threat of an accidental apocalypse very much in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Nuclear Diplomacy | 9/2/1998 | See Source »

Clinton does not seem to mind. Scarier still, he does not seem to notice. He seems to really believe that his tortured legalisms, his artful dodges, his facile wordplay, his resort to idiosyncratic definitions that recall nothing so much as the "private language" of some autistic children, constitute an authentic escape from falsehood. It makes you wonder whether what appears to be Clinton's cynicism is instead a cognitive deficit, that he has by now and by habit lost all recognition of the difference between truth and lies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finally, The Telltale Lie | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

Maybe PEARL JAM felt its campaign to become less popular was getting too successful. The grunge band, which maintained a no-interviews, no-videos, no-selling-tickets-the-normal-way frame of mind even before singer Eddie Vedder's appearance on the cover of TIME five years ago, seems to have relented. Not only has it released Single Video Theory, a home video of the band rehearsing for its current Yield album tour, but, horror of promotional horrors, a clip for Do the Evolution will soon pop up on MTV. The band released a statement about its new work, saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1998 | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

...case of President Gantry, though, the mob does not seem to mind. A cross section of citizens on NBC after the speech gave their approval of Clinton's performance. "He came clean," said one. "Enough already!" One thing achieved by this easy transaction--as author Suzanne Garment has observed--is that the public slips off the hook. No moral standards need apply. Who then minds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: President Gantry Addresses the Flock | 8/31/1998 | See Source »

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