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The squeeze began in January when President Jiang Zemin's propagandists tore a page from international football rule books and set up a "yellow card system." Publications must now gain permission from regional propaganda departments to cover seven forbidden topics, including the military, religion and the private lives of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing the Messenger | 7/18/2001 | See Source »

To sum up, California says Houston owes them $8.9 billion in price-gouging of its utilities - which it had to bail out. Houston says California should come back either never or when the utilities have settled their tab with the power companies, somewhere around $4.5 billion. Both sides use different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Gets Ready For Another Run At Bush | 7/11/2001 | See Source »

"The attendants used to come in and say, 'Mr. Becker, five minutes,'" says Nick Bollettieri, who coached him in 1994 and '95. "He was in his jogging clothes, didn't pay attention. 'Mr. Becker, four minutes.' He would take the clothes off, fold them piece by piece. Go into the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boris Becker: Broken Promise | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

Secretary of State Colin Powell returned from the region last week having tried to get both sides to agree to a timetable for implementation. In the end, they agreed to some of the broad elements of that timetable, but appeared to have entirely different ideas as to the sequence of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Truce Hurts | 7/2/2001 | See Source »

Does an agreement of this type not require the U.S. to play referee? Calling out the American fire brigade to resolve some crisis was Arafat's favorite tactic in the last years of the Clinton administration, and he seemed to be blossoming in Powell's presence Thursday. How long before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powell Timetable Puts Pressure on Israelis and Palestinians | 6/29/2001 | See Source »

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