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...Perhaps they might also be encouraged to stay at home when Jiang arrives, rather than pester him with those embarrassing "remember Tiananmen Square!" placards. Especially if Jiang follows through on a vague promise that his country would place a $2 billion order for 30 Boeing planes during his visit. Did someone say 'Most Favored Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Men Bear Gifts | 10/17/1997 | See Source »

...fans. Unfortunately, Baiul thought she could enter the pros and coast. What she must do--after her back is completely healed, of course--is go back to the gym, get on the ice and work hard. She has to realize that life is not all fun and games. KARA PESTER Modesto, California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1997 | 2/17/1997 | See Source »

Last week, sitting in what is probably his favorite spot in the world--the narrow balcony between his office and the Senate floor, a place where no voters can pester him, where no one can ask him why he lacks vision--Dole turned his perpetually tanned face to the late winter sun and did what comes naturally: he talked shop. From his lap he plucked a neatly folded piece of paper and ticked off a list of bills. Farm bill. "Have to do that." Line-item veto. "That's something they [the Democrats] want." Small-business regulatory reform. "That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOB & BILL'S BELTWAY BAKE-OFF | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...later trip, even though the Pentagon was able to find him an identical substitute. When one of Washington's hot restaurants, the Palm, was slow to put up Deutch's caricature among more than a thousand portraits of the city's political elite, Deutch had aides and relatives pester the manager with phone calls until the picture was hung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CIA: FOR YOUR DISINFORMATION | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...talking bad girl of a sport that thrives on illusion and politesse. While rivals fairly float through their programs, she's the skater who best bullies gravity. She fights it off like a mugger, stroking the ice hard, pushing it away the same way she brushes off fans who pester her for autographs. So when Harding says her demons are all internal, she is neither psyching herself up nor talking herself down for TV. She is speaking the truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Figure Skater Tonya Harding: Tarnished Victory | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

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