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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spends his life creating, and then rejecting, alternative identities, in true '60s seeker style. "One of the things that most fascinates me about him is his ability to blend Eastern philosophy with Western business techniques," says ER's Noah Wyle, who took the role after watching the PBS documentary Triumph of the Nerds. "Nowadays every high-powered agent has Sun Tzu on his desk; he was the first person I know of who did that." Apple, for Jobs, was a messianic imperative: give the world a Mac, and the rest of the Flower Power agenda would follow. The classic-rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Way They Were | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

What can be done with Cheetah? Replace that nattering chimp with gorillas who are all too human. This is a film about parenting, about the pain and triumph of racial or social assimilation. Kala is a loving adoptive mother, her concern for the boy complicated by the loss of her own child and the knowledge that his difference, when he finally does understand it, may force him from her. To Kerchak, Tarzan is a threat: a wiser form of machismo. And to the brash young Terk (Rosie O'Donnell), Tarzan is just another playmate--weird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Him Tarzan, Him Great | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

Victory, of course, is in the eye of the beholder ?- or the spin doctor. But there?s something Orwellian about Belgrade seeing triumph in an agreement that surrenders a prized province to the control of a United Nations political administration and a NATO-dominated peacekeeping force. Particularly after President Milosevic made his countrymen suffer thousands of casualties and tens of billions of dollars in infrastructure damage as the price for this "victorious" dismemberment of their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Won When Both Sides Are Cheering? | 6/11/1999 | See Source »

...Crimson then built some Ivy momentum by blanking Penn 2-0 on Oct. 3, and followed that with a 2-1 triumph over...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After 0-4-1, Sluggish Start, Men's Soccer Wins Eight of Last 11 | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...turning in India?s favor. Having soundly thrashed Pakistan in their World Cup cricket encounter in England Tuesday, India sent jets to bomb Pakistan-backed infiltrators in Kashmir Wednesday, and began preparing to host Pakistan?s foreign minister for peace talks on Saturday. And it?s not just their triumph in the all-important cricket encounter that?s got India approaching those talks with a measure of confidence. "Pakistan is in a bit of a bind now that the U.S. is putting on pressure for talks," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "It had hoped to provoke India into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Outside Forces Look to Cool Kashmir Conflict | 6/9/1999 | See Source »

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