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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When he was in the Kremlin, he began the effort to transform a dictatorship into a civil society and "a law-based state." The current hearings are intended as a continuation of that process. If Gorbachev were to have his day in court and rebut the hard-liners, it might help the liberal justices block the reactionaries and keep alive his own proudest legacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: Russia v. Gorbachev | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Freed's true ambition, however, is a career in politics. His athletic background, he says, has already helped in that regard. One of his favorite political stories (he has many) is how he helped transform Tsongas's image during the Democratic primaries...

Author: By David B. Lat, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: From Politics to Polo | 10/22/1992 | See Source »

What will transform the content of culture most of all is the artistic world's great imponderable: individual genius. A prognosticator in the year 1500 would have had no way of knowing that Shakespeare was just around the corner. A music seer in 1950 could not have guessed that Elvis Presley was warming up offstage. The next artistic revolutionary may already be waiting in the wings, ready to revitalize a tired art form or set the cultural world on a new course. And when the Next Big Thing hits, one question will hang most urgently in the air: What channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Your Wildest Dreams | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...assistance take hold, the East will forge ahead. East Europeans will drop their most extreme nationalist and ethnic preoccupations in order to qualify for the economic payoffs they expect from association with the E.C. Of course, some countries, including Romania, Bulgaria and Albania, will simply not be able to transform themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How The World Will Look in 50 Years | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...understand the biology of intelligence is likely to occupy the minds of the world's best scientists for centuries to come. The task may prove more challenging than those alive today suppose, requiring perhaps new breakthroughs in physics and chemistry. Meanwhile, the knowledge spawned by this search promises to transform society. Here is what lies ahead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Frontier Within | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

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