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...when you link a fantasy culture to the wondrous American inventory of guns, you may now and then get a little terrorist. Guns fire vicious daydreams into the actual. Squint and point, and one magic trigger-finger's twitch, the merest spasm of impulse, may send the world into mayhem. That is a power so seductive that it might even have a little Satan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragedy as Child's Play | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

TIME: Could that trigger a larger crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The IMF's Camdessus On Suharto's Recalcitrance | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

...January compared with 1997, and as South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia flood the world with cheap goods, China's trade with the West will take a beating. If Beijing ultimately succumbs and devalues its currency, the move will probably force Hong Kong to do the same, which could trigger a new Asian crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Fix China? | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...Daisy Green (Maura Tierney in the film) shares resumes with campaign adviser Mandy Grunwald. Libby Holden (Kathy Bates), the manic "dust buster" who tries to cover up Stanton's peccadillos before they make the tabs' front pages, is similar to Betsey Wright, Governor Clinton's chief of staff and trigger-happy troubleshooter. Lawrence Harris (Kevin Cooney), the New England Senator who runs against Stanton until being felled by a heart attack, could be the physically frail Paul Tsongas. Cashmere McLeod (Gia Carides) stands in for Gennifer Flowers. And Fred Picker (Larry Hagman), the white knight who comes out of retirement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: True Colors | 3/16/1998 | See Source »

...taking pictures, a soldier rushed in and shot all three commandos point-blank. The soldiers panicked and turned hostile, so I left. Later a cameraman who videotaped the incident told me one of the soldiers had aimed his assault rifle at my back and pulled the trigger. His weapon jammed, and before he could clear it to shoot again, I was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1989-1998 Transformation: Witness: James Nachtwey | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

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