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...round up. You don't have to look far to find Pakistanis with the necessary motive to carry out Saturday's assassination attempt against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Indeed, the man who led Pakistan through its nuclear testing last year even may have brought Saturday's assassination attempt upon himself. "His clampdowns on opposition have created a very dangerous situation where the only outlet for dissent is in the form of acts of violence such as the one we've just seen," says TIME New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk. "And he's not very popular with...
Which was, by that time, a viper's nest, and a place sent reeling by the events it had been called upon to absorb in a few short days. All the same, as the voting proceeded on the four articles of impeachment, the mood that this whole strange year was always supposed to invoke but almost never did--sober-minded, even a little abashed--finally settled across the capital and maybe across the country. Every imaginable motive was still at work in "the process," every kind of ugly reckoning is probably still to come, but for once all the players...
While the House was preparing to impeach the President and American missiles were raining upon Iraq, we were assembling our traditional year-end issue. The news reinforced our decision, which we had been wrestling with until the final days, to choose as our Men of the Year Bill Clinton and his pursuer Kenneth Starr, whose shared obstinacy but radically different personalities and values caused them to become entwined in a sullied embrace and paired for history. The year drew to a close the way it had opened in January, with events being driven by what these two men had wrought...
...point, in fierce pain, I scribbled in pencil, "Kill me!" At long last I recovered my health. Before that incident my instinct for self-preservation had never wavered, nor has it since. All aspects of a patient should be evaluated and decided upon not by a single medical expert but by several, and by close family members. KEITH SABOCOR Seal Beach, Calif...
...mini-war may be over, but the bullets, both verbal and literal, keep flying in Iraq. The live rounds Monday came in Iraq's northern no-fly zone as U.S. planes hit an Iraqi air defense battery after being fired upon. Iraq's government said four soldiers were killed after U.S. bombs made at least two direct hits on the emplacement near the city of Mosul. Meanwhile, Iraq was shifting its position on the U.N.'s oil-for-food program. One day after causing a minor stir by threatening to expell some 400 workers who monitor the program, Iraq...