Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instability a threat," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "When you're talking about a country with 22,000 nuclear weapons, you want to know they're in safe hands." Indeed, on a day when Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov muttered darkly that "Yeltsin is pushing the nation to a civil war" and Olympic-level athletes threatened to pull out of a Moscow track meet for fear of being injured in a coup, it's not hard...
KINSHASA, Congo: The western front is closed in the Congo's civil war. President Laurent Kabila declared Monday that government troops, backed by the Angolans, have turned the rebels away from the capital of Kinshasa and have vowed to follow them east toward Rwanda and Uganda until the fight is finished. But TIME reporter Clive Mutiso says the rebels have two things in their favor: terrain and their own desperation...
...neglect laws in nearly every state make parents who fail to obtain medical treatment for their seriously ill children liable. However, a 1974 federal child-care program made funding contingent on the states' exempting faith-healing parents. That requirement no longer exists, but 41 states retain exemptions from local civil-abuse and -neglect laws. In Oregon, Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Ohio and West Virginia there are also exemptions from criminal homicide or manslaughter charges. Says Gustafson: "I've spent nights trying to figure out a way to bring the message to this church that you can't kill your kids...
...said he liked having all his subjects to hand. Among these, in the 1890s, were members of his family: his father (a civil servant in the Ministry of War), his maternal grandmother, his sister and her husband, their children. The main presence in his work, however, was the woman he lived with for almost 30 years before they wed in 1925, Maria Boursin, who called herself Marthe de Meligny. She appears in some 380 of his paintings, naked or clothed. His pictures don't narrate their relationship, but they do plot it as a series of presences and apparitions...
...Which was almost certainly the reasoning behind Clinton's "asking for forgiveness" aside during a civil rights speech in Massachusetts Friday. But has it had any effect? Dick Gephardt does seem to be stepping back from last week's discussion of the Clinton impeachment process -- "I do trust the President," Gephardt told TIME -- but that hasn't stopped many Democrats on the reelection trail from distancing themselves from the President. With the previously unthinkable loss of a dozen House seats now being openly discussed, forgiveness is not at the top of their agenda...