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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elizabeth spent a lifetime contending with the issue of marriage and royal heirs and the challenges raised by men who would steal her scepter. Marriage is what 16th century women were for, and Queens needed heirs. She engaged in the most manipulative, interminable courtships, driven not by love but by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 16th Century: Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Notoriously parsimonious--except for her own fashions--Elizabeth hated war for its costly wastefulness, yet embroiled England ineffectually in the long Continental struggles of the Counter-Reformation. When the Catholic threat of Spain reached its apogee in 1588, her penny pinching nearly cost England its independence before luck and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 16th Century: Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

How can you not pick Hitler, demand the players around the table who take seriously the rules of TIME's parlor game: Who had the greatest impact on this century, for better or worse? It is too easy just to say that he lost, when in doing so he still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Necessary Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

The airport tarmac at Kandahar became a battlefield of regional political intrigue as the hostages sweated and shivered through sweltering days and chilly nights: Initially, India looked set to restore relations with the Afghan rulers on the basis of their cooperation with Indian efforts to free the hostages, but then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hands Tied, India Caves in to Hijackers | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

As they await a March 7 trial, the Kelsos are forbidden to have any contact with their son while authorities try to line up a suitable long-term placement. The hospital has been deluged with calls offering sympathy and support, as well as some from other parents of severely handicapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Nightmare | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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