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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Atmani may be the man American police are still searching for: an accomplice, thought possibly to have fled from the ferry--along with "sleeper" associates already hiding somewhere in the U.S. It's likely that at least one other person would have been required to transform the volatile chemicals in Ressam's trunk into bombs. The chemistry alone could take a couple of days; the assembly process would have been tricky as well. Ressam's chosen crossing point seemed amateurish: he would stand out among the sparse travelers. And though he could be a lone crank with a totally fanciful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Year's Evil? | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...believes in the human capacity to change and wages Satyagraha against the oppressor, not to destroy him but to transform him, that he cease his oppression and join the oppressed in the pursuit of Truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sacred Warrior | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...have aggressively addressed the disaster in Africa. As Rivers says, it's long past time for black leaders "to come from under the shroud of denial and apathy" and make fighting the African AIDS crisis a front-burner issue in next year's presidential campaign. In other words, to transform our professed love for our Motherland into more than Afrocentric lip service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Silence Is a Sin | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

...that it represented a truth about nature, as theology did about God; that this truth was conclusive, beyond further argument. In a culture ruled by King and church, where the arts were easily accused of frivolity and sensuality, this was a colossal claim. Very rarely, an artist gets to transform the conditions of his culture--not just add to them or jog their evolution, but alter them decisively. This is what Picasso did for America and Europe in the 20th century. Perhaps less obviously, Velazquez did the same for Spain in the 17th century. He showed that the nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spain's Conquistador | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Yugoslavia found itself in a precarious, fragile situation entering the '90s. There were in large numbers throughout the country moderate citizens and politicians, Croat, Serb, and of other ethnicities, who hoped to see the country transform itself peacefully into a loosely knit confederation in which all citizens would play a part in governance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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