T H E B E S T O F 1 9 9 8
YEAR IN REVIEW
Titanic home runs and death-defying stock-market swings. Beetlemania and John Glenn. Yes, this was much more than just the Year of Monica
CINEMA
Nothing could touch Saving Private Ryan
BOOKS
Tom Wolfe returned as the novelist in full
SPORTS
France's World Cup of joy brimmed over
PEOPLE
Seinfeld's sayonara was much ado about nothing
SCANDALS
No prizes for guessing The Big One
BUSINESS
A noble winner--and a pair of Nobel losers
ENVIRONMENT
Saving Suriname ... and the swordfish
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A S I A
SHADOW SHOGUN
Japan: A consummate backroom pol, Hiromu Nonaka is the power behind Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi's throne
TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Bhutan: The Himalayan Shangri-La is shaken by a murder mystery--and stirred by the perils of modernization
His Airness: King Jigme's hoops and dreams
UNDER FIRE
India: Bombay's moral police crack down on an award-winning film
DR. M'S WRONG TURN
Malaysia: David Roche warns that Mahathir's capital controls are a medicine worse than the malady
E N D P A G E S
SPOTLIGHT
MILESTONES
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
TRAVEL WATCH
Ranking the rankings--the best of the best
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