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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...immediately challenged Rwanda and began sending Kabila logistical support, which has helped him slow the rebel advance." With Kabila having failed to stop UNITA rebels attacking Angola from his territory, the Angolans can't be too happy with his performance -- they're more likely to be backing him in order to thwart a Rwandan plan to break up the Congo and take control of its eastern provinces. Either way, the fate of the Congo once again looks likely to be settled far beyond its borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neighborhood Split Over Kabila | 8/19/1998 | See Source »

...would be made the next day. Until then, Glenn was to say nothing. The Senator thanked the administrator, hung up the phone and went back to work without a word to his staff. "He's a military man," says press secretary Jack Sparks. "He knows how to take an order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Glenn: Back To The Future | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...slides behind the counter, looking like your typical down-on-his-luck short-order cook. He flips burgers, takes orders, cracks jokes and signs autographs for the fans pouring into the place: businessmen, working women, students from the culinary academy up the street. They're not star struck, just pleased to meet a star who seems like a regular guy. "Can I shake your hand?" someone asks. "Sure," says Buffett, "for a hundred bucks." Everyone laughs. He asks a woman at the counter how she wants her burger, and suddenly he's leading the crowd in a Cheeseburger in Paradise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still Rockin' In Jimmy Buffett's Key West Margaritaville | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Suddenly the market did a U-turn--no, a V-turn--and rocketed 100 points. I was up $70,000 on AOL before I got confirmation that I had bought it. Dell moved 6 in less time than it takes to order a computer on the Web. Yes, you could make money if you were willing to buy something you knew and loved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Bottom Fish | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...Democratic presidential nomination, has a lot at stake. Not too long ago, Gephardt was engaged in some bitter policy clashes with both Clinton and Vice President Gore. But that was pre-Monica. Gephardt has spent the past seven months suppressing his own Oval Office ambitions in order to defend its current occupant. Every two weeks since April he has convened a meeting in his office with Conyers, Frank, Berman and top staff members to talk about the Lewinsky scandal, the timing of a report from Starr and its probable impact on Democrats in this November's midterm elections. The outcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If the Going Gets Rough, Gephardt's Got a Scrapper | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

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