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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speed; our heads spin at the slightest rattle. But history is a mule in the thicket; it moves when it moves. If you ask me, the story of the year could just as easily have been the moment when Iran lifted its fatwah bounty off the head of Salman Rushdie, or when Iranian President Mohammad Khatami gave an interview to CNN--baby-step signs of a revised national policy regarding the Great Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of the Year | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...million Amount an Iranian foundation offered for killing Salman Rushdie for blaspheming Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Oct. 26, 1998 | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

Initial indications are that the decision by the Iranian government to disown the death sentence that was issued against novelist SALMAN RUSHDIE in 1989 is backed by both the competing moderate and hard-line factions in Iran. The first suggestion that this chapter was closing came last week in New York City, when Iran's moderate President Mohammed Khatami told reporters that the Rushdie affair was "completely finished." On Thursday, Iranian TV, which is controlled by Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, reported on the news from New York City factually and without editorial comment, signaling its acquiescence to the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Why the Rushdie Fatwa Was Lifted Now | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

Iran's announcement that it is no longer trying to kill author Salman Rushdie has already paid off; London and Tehran officially restored diplomatic relations Thursday. But the U.S. remains unmoved, and it's not clear what it will take to achieve a similar thaw in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fatwa-Free Diplomacy | 9/25/1998 | See Source »

Amid all the brouhaha surrounding the explosion of writing in English from the Indian subcontinent--the million-dollar advances won by Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie, the 36 languages into which Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things has been translated--it's easy to feel that the all-purpose label of "Anglo-Indian" writing covers a multitude of sins and that too many serious craftsmen are being massed under the Orientalist tent. Abraham Verghese's vision, full of the earnest self-inquiry of a foreigner taking America to his heart, might seem as alien to Romesh Gunesekera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegy and Affirmation | 9/7/1998 | See Source »

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