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This peek into the future is not the result of a single stroke of inspiration from one editor; the idea grew over a year from more modest proposals by several staff members. And then, over the past six months, it was prepared under the direction of editors Edward Jamieson and Stephen Koepp. Vacationing in the Grand Canyon's timeless beauty soon after he began the project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of things...
...Clarence Thomas. When he nominated Thomas in July 1991, Bush insisted that he was "the best man" to sit on the Supreme Court. But even the President's aides admit that a jurist of Thomas' modest qualifications would never have been considered for the job unless he was a black conservative...
Wheaton was slightly less modest in talking about the goal...
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...country during a 12-year campaign that took 25,000 lives, damaged $22 billion worth of property and left some Peruvians fearing that his "forces of history" might achieve victory. That is, until last week -- when Guzman was captured by government forces in a bloodless raid on a modest house in one of Lima's middle-class neighborhoods...