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...predict the outcome of the special counsel's probe. The dealings are so complex that it is difficult even to summarize the suspicions they arouse...But on another level, the investigation concerns the much larger issue of whether a President and First Lady can be trusted to obey the law and tell the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Jan. 11, 1999 | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...however, God called to Moses from it, restating his ancient promise that Israel "shall be my treasured possession among all the peoples." Moses leads his followers to the foot of the mountain where God begins to speak to them. They tremble. "You speak to us and we will obey," they tell Moses,"but let not God speak to us, lest we die." God complies, Moses ascends and verbally receives what the ancient rabbis called the "10 pearls," which he reports to the Israelites. In a ritual similar to contemporary Hittite and Assyrian treaties between a King and his vassals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...much of the proceedings, two-thirds of the members didn't even bother to show up to listen to their colleagues, to the point that Democrat David Obey urged the Speaker to tell members that "whatever they're doing, they ought to drop it and get their tails in here." At the outset, the proceedings were confined to two hours, which produced the spectacle of one lawmaker after another finding that he didn't have time to serve up a sound bite, much less an idea. Some complained that they had spent more time naming post offices last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Down In History | 10/19/1998 | See Source »

...camps, Afghanistan's Islamic leaders had a few quiet words with him. "I am angry because Osama is making anti-American statements from our soil and I stressed on him not to do so," said Mullah Mohammed Omar, the Taliban militia's supreme leader. Bin Laden had agreed to "obey" the instructions and lie low, Omar added...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taliban to Osama: Shut Up! | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...find a legal way out, Mandela assumed his full responsibility. This conferred a new status of moral dignity on his leadership, which became evident from the moment he was returned to Robben Island. Even on his first arrival, two years before, he had set an example by refusing to obey an order to jog from the harbor, where the ferry docked, to the prison gates. The warden in charge warned him bluntly that unless he started obeying, he might quite simply be killed and that no one on the mainland would ever be the wiser. Whereupon Mandela quietly retorted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nelson Mandela | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

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