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...fastened to CNN, makes a valuable witness. But it has a tendency to stir people to bursts of indignation that flare briefly, spectacularly and ineffectually, like a fire splashed with a cup of gasoline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Good Intentions: In Feeding Somalia and Backing Yeltsin, America Discovers the Limits of Idealism . | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...agog because among the diners were two middle-aged men, one burly, the other downright fat. They sat around jawing about sports -- soccer, tennis, Formula 1 auto racing. At one point they turned to chat about fashion with a neighboring party of awed Italians. The cause of the stir was that the two amiable gents were the world's most famous opera singers and among the richest and best-known entertainers in any field: Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Knights of the Opera | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...Clinton was so excited that he asked if he could release cost estimates based on the managed-care idea to the public. Magaziner was all for it. Others opposed the move, however, saying the numbers would stir debate, even if the new approach was sound. Pollack told Clinton that his group would soon release a "bipartisan" report detailing managed competition's effect on the budget. Why not, Pollack said, let his group put numbers out? Clinton agreed. That way the numbers would be available but could not be directly linked to Clinton's plan. Two days later, after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bill and Hill Clinton: Behind Closed Doors | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...admiral. The determination to decapitate Aidid's faction is considered an American interpretation of the U.N. resolution calling for the capture of the Somalis responsible for the ambush of the Pakistanis. A total of 35 peacekeepers have died since May, none of them American. "The U.S. is quick to stir up trouble with air strikes," said a Pakistani peacekeeper, "but it is my men and other Third World soldiers who always draw the tough assignments on the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Peacemaking War | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

...whose investigation began 18 months ago, planted an undercover agent inside the white-supremacist community; one of their civilian informants even posed as a minister of the Church of the Creator. The agent was allegedly told by the plotters that killing the pastor of the A.M.E. church would "stir the masses," that "half-assed revolutions" don't work, and that killing black leaders was the way to start the race war. One skinhead said that "an $ average dumb nigger" should be slain so the group could bond with blood. The violent rhetoric seemed at odds with some of the members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Today Los Angeles, Tomorrow . . . | 7/26/1993 | See Source »

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