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...kill you." And it's not as if 34-year-old Bashar has exactly coveted the job, telling anyone who'd listen until a few months ago that he harbored no presidential ambitions. But in a scenario eerily reminiscent of India's Gandhi family - in which Rajiv found greatness thrust upon him after Indira's preferred heir, Sanjay, died in a plane crash - Bashar may have had no choice after his elder brother, Basil, died in a car crash. Like Rajiv Gandhi, Bashar had been educated in Britain before returning home to reluctantly fill a deceased parent's shoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Israel-Syria Peace May Have to Wait a Few Years | 6/13/2000 | See Source »

...loved them and despised the way the Monte Carlo Circus Festival treated them. So she protested strongly, vocally, with her PETA allies. Love was the farthest thing from her mind. Tommy Lee was back in jail for parole violation. Their stormy relationship had run its course. But then fate thrust MARCUS SCHENKENBERG, sculpted male supermodel, into the Hotel de Paris room of Dan Mathews, PETA director. Their eyes met...But wait! A terrible chirping! Marcus exploded like a shot to the privy, where a drowning baby blackbird thrashed in the icy waters. With strength, with grace, he lifted the bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 12, 2000 | 6/12/2000 | See Source »

Just out of her final year of high school, Gunther was thrust into perhaps the biggest pressure position on the soccer field--in goal. Making things even hairier were the shoes into which Gunther was stepping...

Author: By Richard A. Perez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rookie of the Year: Freshman Cheryl Gunther in Goal Buoys W. Soccer's Success | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...voluntary," he asserted, because undergraduates wouldn't feel the same strong allegiance to a House they were forced to join as they would to one that they picked. Without that sense of loyalty, the willingness to partake in a shared life would vanish and the students would again be thrust into the utter individualism of the Eliot years...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Rise and Fall of the Houses | 6/8/2000 | See Source »

...nonpartisan American Bankruptcy Institute, found that only 3.6% of Chapter 7 debtors would be able to pay more. "The vast majority belong in that chapter," the study stressed. "They have too little income after necessary expenses to repay unsecured debt. It is vital, therefore, that no undue burdens be thrust on that needy majority in order to flush out a small minority of abusers." The amount that might be collected: less than $1 billion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Money & Politics: Who Gets Hurt?: Soaked By Congress | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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