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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paris to sign the nato-Russian treaty. After the speeches had been delivered and the documents signed, the distinguished guests retired to the garden of the Elysee Palace to chat over champagne and hors d'oeuvres. Chirac caught Clinton by the arm and pulled him off to the side for a private chat with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and newly elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The subject of this impromptu mini-summit: the plan to kidnap Karadzic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bosnia: The Hunt For Karadzic | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

Drawing on the proud comedic tradition of fat people making fun of themselves, Mo'Nique enters the stage yelling, "Y'all give it up for my fat ass!" For some reason, from that moment on, the audience is on her side. "Once you fall in love with Mo'Nique," she explains later, "I can say anything." That includes energetic rants against Victoria's Secret's refusal to carry size 22. Though her material isn't brilliant, the former full-size model has a persona that's perfect for TV. And, conveniently enough, she's already closed up her comedy club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...tiny people. 'Hello, tiny people! It is time for supper! Feast! Feast!'" But while she wanders to that punch line, she takes some rest stops to chat with her hand, as if it were a puppet. "You'll notice it," she says, "because I very cleverly turn to the side." The hand says, "Shut up! Tell your joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Funny: The Next Generation | 8/10/1998 | See Source »

...side of an office building, a statue of a business man leans forward, the wall resting where his head should be. A clever poem next to him recounts the fate of his "head for business." Sitting in Grand Central Market, eating fried bananas and feeling grateful that I took Spanish in school, I was amazed by how much I liked the parts of LA that...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, | Title: Rediscovering Home | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

...decided to go to school on the opposite side of country from my home in order to experience a new world--to see new sights and taste the atmosphere of a new region. I am happy with my decision--I feel that my time in Cambridge has been and will continue to be the experience that I hoped for. But my time at home this summer has reminded me of what is, in my opinion, one of the happiest truths about our ever smaller world--that even in the most familiar of environments, there is always something new to learn...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, | Title: Rediscovering Home | 8/7/1998 | See Source »

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