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...sweet, sympathetic man. This true-life Nebraska fable--M. Butterfly mixed with In Cold Blood--proved that love is blind and hate is too. Boys Don't Cry, a fiction film, underlines the awkwardness of cowgirl courtship as Brandon (Hilary Swank) and best friend Lana (Chloe Sevigny) probe for each other's guilty secrets. But the movie lets down the material. It's too cool: all attitude, no sizzle--horror under glass. This time, art can't measure up to real life, love and death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Boys Don't Cry | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...into his own charities ? even though it turns out some of those charities were receiving public money and then loaning it to private corporations. But Suharto may be benefiting from the narrow terms laid down for the inquiry initiated by his handpicked successor, President B. J. Habibie. The official probe focused exclusively on Suharto?s charities, and a Habibie aide told the BBC that Suharto could not be prosecuted over the numerous decrees he passed benefiting his family over the national economy because those were made legal by the fact that they?d been passed by his cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suharto Probe Dropped. Whitewash in Jakarta? | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...bomb attack that killed Americans - and they're sending him home?! Unless a federal court blocks his deportation, accused Saudi terrorist Hani al-Sayegh will be sent back to Riyadh Wednesday. The move comes after Sayegh, a Saudi dissident trained in Iran, stopped cooperating with an FBI probe into the 1996 attack on Khobar Towers in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, in which 19 U.S. military personnel were killed. Of course, going home could be more dangerous than staying in Washington. But the Justice Department says that the U.S. lacks sufficient evidence to charge Sayegh in an American court and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Curious Case of Hani al-Sayegh | 10/5/1999 | See Source »

NASA Loses Mars probe as it nears planet. Do Martians understand "Return to Sender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 4, 1999 | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

...election trail and 12-day Asia trip reduce voice to whisper. Vocal cords examined with fiber-optic probe; given drug to keep stomach acid out of throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Clinton Voice Index | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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