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...room flat in the east coast town of Berea. In 1964, Kodesh was detained without trial, then exiled to Britain where he continued to work for Mandela's African National Congress. Kodesh returned to South Africa in 1991 as the apartheid system began to crumble. Believing that the cloak-and-dagger life he led would be unfair to any wife and family, Kodesh never married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...apology really an apology when it seems utterly insincere and comes wrapped in a cloak of cultural superiority? As profound as this question may seem, it is being hashed over not by philosophers but by lawyers. In a swell of nationalistic umbrage last year, a British tabloid, the Daily Mirror, printed the phone number of wealthy American film producer Steven Bing, whom it dubbed Bing Laden, and urged readers to call and berate him. Bing's crime? Denying he was the father of British model Elizabeth Hurley's child (DNA tests later proved his paternity). Bing, seen here with Hurley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 4, 2002 | 11/4/2002 | See Source »

...What we have here is a Republican in Democratic cloak,” Lachelier says. “In this case, the Green is a better Democrat than the Democrat...

Author: By William B. Higgins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Long Alone on Ballot, Toomey Sees a Challenge | 11/1/2002 | See Source »

...impressive show of force. Under the cloak of darkness last week, Chinook and Black Hawk choppers dropped an entire battalion of 520 U.S. paratroopers into a remote valley in Afghanistan, just across the border from the rugged mountains of Pakistan, where al-Qaeda has re-established training camps. With dogs barking, cows chewing and a watchful camel resting, the heavily armed U.S. force trudged through irrigated fields and muddy Pashtun villages--cordoning off a 3.5-mile-long area and searching each of 150 residential compounds that dangle off the nosebleed hillsides by the Kakh and Khardala rivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSIDE THE JIHAD: AFGHANISTAN: Taunts from The Border | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

Consider the “preventive detention” of thousands of Muslim, Arab and South Asian immigrants under an alarming cloak of secrecy. It is telling that the government still refuses to give a number for how many people were so detained, and how many stay so. Further, the USA PATRIOT Act allows the attorney general practically unchecked power in the treatment of noncitizens. He need merely proclaim to have “reasonable grounds” to believe “terrorist” activity has taken place to hold non-citizens indefinitely, a far cry from...

Author: By Dusty Lewis and Brian J. Wong, S | Title: We Can Be Both Safe and Free | 10/25/2002 | See Source »

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