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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the other leaders of the G-8 nations arrive in England for their annual summit this week, they will be greeted by the famously toothy smile of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They will switch on their smiles too, but mostly for show. Bill Clinton is stuck in the mire of the Lewinsky matter. Germany's Helmut Kohl is facing a September election he may not survive. Japan's Ryutaro Hashimoto is struggling to keep his government and his country's economy from collapsing. Boris Yeltsin is in poor health and is a political lame duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Of The World | 5/18/1998 | See Source »

...DELHI: In case you missed them, those five loud bangs earlier this week mean India has the bomb. And just to drive the point home, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said in an interview Friday that he has more than mere nuke tests up his sleeve. "We have a big bomb now," he said, "for which a necessary command and control system is also in place." Although Vajpayee didn't elaborate, that could mean India's missiles have been tipped with atomic warheads -- or the country's small submarine fleet has just gone nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India Brags About the Bomb | 5/15/1998 | See Source »

...Anything that Harvard can do to give itsstudents the chance to get into better physicalcondition will be much appreciated," said JordanB. Toumey '98. "Those two hours before class wouldbe prime workout time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knowles Adds Two Hours to MAC Schedule | 5/13/1998 | See Source »

...Average number of commercial minutes in one hour of prime-time network programming, up 14% over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

PLEADED GUILTY. JEAN KAMBANDA, 42, former Prime Minister of Rwanda, to genocide and crimes against humanity; before a U.N. tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania. Half a million people were slaughtered during his regime in 1994. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 11, 1998 | 5/11/1998 | See Source »

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