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...cancel out entirely the result of the referendum. "The military feels insulted," says Harry Tjan Silalahi, a think-tank director in Jakarta. "Some may want to restore order, but those in the field have a much different purpose." In all likelihood, each of these explanations added a sliver of sick truth to East Timor's fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On The Razor's Edge | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

Perhaps our advancing society is telling me that my desires aren't sick at all. In fact, they demonstrate how I think of women as people, instead of animalistic sexual toys. Body hair is a fortress between me and the person I love, a way of preventing me from getting to know and respect her as a person. It's pathetic what I'll say to get a woman to shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaving the Body, Fantastic | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...look for a way in, a way to finally make Clinton pay for all the vileness he represents to them. "This committee is a bipartisan committee that's not going to be stiffed," said Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) of his Senate version of the investigation. "Frankly, we're just sick and tired of it." They are coming for Clinton on Wen Ho Lee, on FALN and Waco, on throwing money down the Russian sinkhole. Clinton, of course, has been through it all before, from Foster and Travelgate to Whitewater and you-know-what, invoking executive privilege all the while. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOP Sees FALN Move as Chance to Nail Clinton | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

When a BASE jumper dies, other BASE jumpers say he has "gone in," as in gone into the ground or gone into a wall. "I'm sick of people going in," says Fillipino. "In the past year, a friend went in on a skydive, another drowned as a result of a BASE jump, another friend went in on a jump, another died in a skydiving-plane crash. You can't escape death, but you don't want to flirt with it either." It may be the need to flirt with death, or at least take extreme chances, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Adventure: Life On The Edge | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

Although your situation may differ, here are some general signs that you're not just tired but sick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sick and Tired? | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

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