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...what was then China's naughtiest and most revolutionary-minded city, he discovered Benny Goodman and English films as well as communist politics. He joined the party at the age of 19, and once had to escape the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek by hiding in the trunk of his university president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: MEET JIANG ZEMIN | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...police located the child's body in the river two weeks ago and arrested the two men, who had literature in their trunk from the North American Man-Boy Love Association...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A BOY DIES IN THE '90S | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

...dialed up James Crowe, chairman of a local-service provider called MFS Communications, to propose a deal. By the time Ebbers hung up, he was ready to shell out $12.5 billion for MFS, which was itself acquiring UUNet, the world's largest source of trunk lines--or "backbones"--to the Internet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERNIE'S DEAL | 10/13/1997 | See Source »

...evidence against him mounted. Testimony from two friends who were asked by Einhorn to help him dispose of the trunk. The two former girlfriends who ended up in the hospital after trying to break off relationships with Einhorn. One was nearly strangled; the other had a Coke bottle smashed over her head. So much for flower power. The public embodiment of peace and love was in private a monster. Sickened friends spoke of betrayal and wondered if Einhorn had ever cared about anything but Ira. George Keegan: "We were walking down the street together. People who once would come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SEARCH FOR THE UNICORN | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...Einhorn, wearing blue jeans and a tunic made by Flodin, strolled into the Bordeaux courtroom Sept. 2 as if there had never been a body in the trunk or a pack of hounds on his trail or 16 years on the lam. He looked healthy, untroubled, his face ruddy. He played with a silver goatee and casually acknowledged Flodin, who smiled from the back of the courtroom, wearing a bright layered get-up that looked as if it were stolen from the closet of Pippi Longstocking. The Unicorn had had a long time to write himself a new speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SEARCH FOR THE UNICORN | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

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