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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The diversity agreement would signal a major effort to go beyond such quick fixes. It would also score a much needed victory for the N.A.A.C.P., which has spent much of the past decade dogged by financial woes, an embarrassing sex scandal and a dimmed place on the national political radar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending the Whitewash | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill was co-author of Mfume's 1996 memoir No Free Ride

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending the Whitewash | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

When Jeff Bezos came to lunch at TIME last month, the second most noticeable thing about him was his laugh, a loud rat-a-tat-tat that startled some of us at first and then became infectious. The most noticeable thing about Bezos, however, was his intelligent passion. He fervently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Man in the Cardboard Box | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

We don't know how right Bezos is, but as the driving force behind the striking growth in Internet commerce over the past 12 months, he has helped guarantee that the world of buying and selling will never be the same.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Man in the Cardboard Box | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Joshua Quittner, who wrote the profile of our 1999 Person of the Year, spent three weeks trailing Bezos. "He's manic without the depression," says Quittner, who writes our Personal Time technology column and edits TIME DIGITAL. Quittner and photographer David Burnett even stayed at Bezos' Seattle, Wash., home overnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Man in the Cardboard Box | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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