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...Army had been streaming into the city for a month, brutalizing Hungary's October revolution. The foggy nights, filled all fall with the sounds of ecstatic students, were now split with the jostle of machinery--10 divisions of Soviet tanks--and the uneven light of Molotov cocktails thrown through the rain. Fear blossomed in the dampness. The Premier vanished...
...before her, a boy who had lived barely 10 hours. If he had survived, she often wondered, would she have existed? Or would her mother, having produced a male heir, have left her husband for another man earlier than she did, before Diana could be born? After her parents split up, Diana bravely declared that she would marry only once, and only for love, and never, ever divorce...
...same time, the Clinton Administration faced pressure from environmentalists and foreign governments that argued that as the greatest greenhouse-gas emitter on the planet, the U.S. should take the lead in cutting back--a position the President himself took seriously. In the end, Clinton split the difference. Chief U.S. negotiator Stuart Eizenstat, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business and Agricultural Affairs, arrived in Kyoto with a proposal to cut emissions back to 1990 levels, no lower, between...
DIED. TAMARA GEVA, 91, witty Russian ballerina-actress; in New York City. Geva, just shy of 16, married the choreographer George Balanchine, becoming, as her autobiography Split Seconds put it, "the first Galatea to his Pygmalion." She set aside dancing in the '30s to act and later starred in George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance...
...Gates can take solace in the large number of TIME Daily readers who still love him. With more than 5,000 votes tallied, this week's Microsoft poll has 42 percent calling for Justice to lay off their hounds. The majority disagree, but they're divided over whether to split Microsoft in two or hand Windows over to the government. With the right moves, could Gates make Man of the Year...