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Ten-to-1, you think Australians are rather like Americans, and that we want to be more so. Dead wrong. No idealism attended the birth of Anglo-Australia. White colonization in America began as a religious venture; the Puritans thought they were, literally, creating God's country. Australia, by contrast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Australia | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

Clinton sees the nation, west Africa's most powerful, as a fulcrum for democracy and capitalism he hopes will spread across the continent. "Your fight is America's fight and the world's fight," Clinton told the National Assembly in his keynote Saturday speech often punctured by applause. But the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nigeria, Clinton Sees a Work in (Slow) Progress | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

For those with long memories, it is about time Nigeria showed some promise. It did in the 1970s - Jimmy Carter was the first president to visit - but a collapse in oil prices and a string of corrupt military dictators, massacres, famines and bloody civil strife held it back. Now that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Nigeria, Clinton Sees a Work in (Slow) Progress | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

But one could argue that what keeps America the world's only superpower today - especially economically - is precisely the same vulgar culture that Lieberman reviles. Crappy American movies imprint the American consciousness across every continent; millions of little Elians the world over go to bed and dream of Lara Croft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Joseph in the Technicolor Dream Factory | 8/16/2000 | See Source »

But at that point the home team was at the bottom of the lobbying league. California's Silicon Valley remains home to the high-tech industry's loudest political megaphone, TechNet. Based in Palo Alto, it gives campaign donations in roughly equal proportions to Republicans and Democrats and serves as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting To Know The Hill | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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