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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whether it is seen as a win or a weak compromise remains to be seen. The pact, TIME has learned, does not set any quotas for minority representation either in front of or behind the cameras. But it does lay out ambitious goals in some 30 areas where the networks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending the Whitewash | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Diversity on TV is not exactly a front-burner issue for many African Americans either. And it's likely that Mfume will face some grumbling from civil rights old-liners that any goodwill covenant with the networks that lacks enforcement teeth is not worth much. But Mfume may wind up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ending the Whitewash | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

When Jeff Bezos came to lunch at TIME last month, the second most noticeable thing about him was his laugh, a loud rat-a-tat-tat that startled some of us at first and then became infectious. The most noticeable thing about Bezos, however, was his intelligent passion. He fervently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Man in the Cardboard Box | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

The American triumph in the '90s came as a rude surprise to some. Only a decade ago, Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers ushered in the conventional wisdom that America, suffering from "imperial overstretch," was in decline. With the collapse of the Soviet Empire, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Second American Century? | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Well, not everyone, and there's the rub. Americans, happy in their getting and spending, are largely oblivious to their massive world influence. But others are not, particularly foreign elites. Some chafe, like the French Minister of Culture who called Disneyland Paris a cultural Chernobyl. Some rant, like the Malaysian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Second American Century? | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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