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...feeling that if he wore a tie (he doesn't), it would fly behind him like the parachute behind a dragster. Even now, as he's supposedly being led on a tour of the warehouse, he's at the front of the line, sailing down a narrow corridor that doglegs and decants into a huge room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeff Bezos: Bio: An Eye On The Future | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Perhaps most tragically, the radical and implacable nationalism of Tudjman and Milosevic contributed strongly to the disintegration and bloodbath that occurred in the neighboring republic of Bosnia. With their insistence that all Croats or all Serbs be united in one unified, ethnically pure state, they and other narrow-minded leaders tore apart communities in Bosnia that had peacefully coexisted for decades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

...head start of some 500 superdelegates (elected officials and party bigwigs loyal to Gore). Bradley has perhaps 20 superdelegates, according to Gore aides. (Bradley advisers wouldn't offer a figure.) And the party has forbidden states to hold winner-take-all primaries, in which a candidate with only a narrow victory margin can rake in most of a state's delegates. That makes it harder for Bradley to win big, as he must do to offset Gore's built-in delegate advantage. In a wild spree of primaries and caucuses, 30 states will vote between March 7 and 14. "Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gore in Your Face | 12/20/1999 | See Source »

...actions stemmed from concerns not only for her own safety, but for all of the other people on the sidewalk that Hicks was using as a moving loom. I agree with Hicks, rudeness is pervasive in our society, but I see it more as a result of narrow self-interest than of '60s style protests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/14/1999 | See Source »

...fifth fight, though, broke the reverie. Now, I hadn't had too much trouble lately with my personal journalist/soldier duality-of-man thing. Even if the perspectives here are a little narrow, it's a worthy and purposeful ethos they've got, and it's begun to fit me all right. But sometimes the propaganda flies so fast and thick that I've got to run for the foxhole of my old fun-loving cynical self (never far away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrestling — a Little — With My Conscience | 12/10/1999 | See Source »

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