December 28, 1998

MEN OF THE YEAR
For rewriting the book on crime and punishment, for putting prices on values we didn't want to rank, for fighting past all reason a battle whose casualties will be counted for years to come, Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr are TIME's 1998 Men of the Year

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
How we made the choice

WHAT A YEAR!
You want history? In 1998 Asia experienced Suharto's downfall, Pol Pot's demise, two new nuclear powers and the glittering productions of Turandot in Beijing and the Olympics in Nagano
• Images of the year

MAHATHIR MOHAMAD
Asia's newsmaker of 1998

OSAMA BIN LADEN
Another man who left his mark

POLL
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