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...equally possible that he has something else in mind. Perhaps he thinks he can successfully endure all the bombing the West can muster and still continue to defy its plans for Kosovo, as his enemies exhaust their will before he exhausts his. "He truly believes he is tougher than the West," says a U.S. diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ethnic Cleanser | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Women are tougher, stronger and lustier than anyone ever thought." Anyone? My wife has been telling me this for years. ERIC HALKEMA Selborne, South Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...your cover story on new research about women: we men always knew that women are tougher, stronger and lustier than we are. Your story just confirmed it. N. LEO FERNANDO Chennai, India...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 5, 1999 | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...Britain's most famous acting families (daughter of Vanessa Redgrave) and trying to carve your own niche on the stage, playing Sally Bowles in a radically revamped version of Cabaret is one sure way. Deciding how to follow up that Tony-winning turn, however, is a tougher call. Richardson twice turned down an offer to join the four-person Broadway cast of Patrick Marber's hit London play Closer. Asked a third time, she thought it over for a weekend and agreed--not because the role promised an acting breakthrough but simply because she loved the play. "Writing like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Sex in the Trauma Ward | 4/5/1999 | See Source »

...only to print transistors on silicon wafers but also to lay down tracks between them. Besides eliminating expensive wiring, the new integrated circuits operated much faster. Six months earlier Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby had produced a similar chip, but it was made of germanium, required external wires and was tougher to manufacture. Noyce's chip won the ensuing patent race, but the two friendly rivals were content to regard themselves as co-inventors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Noyce: Microchip | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

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