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On a continent normally consigned to the political and economic dustheap, Yoweri Museveni has amply demonstrated that he is something different. The President of Uganda, respected at home as Central Africa's intellectual compass and admired abroad as the harbinger of good news for a blighted region, has successfully resurrected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN AFRICAN FOR AFRICA | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

That, in the end, is the heart of Museveni's message. "We are building Afrocentric, not Eurocentric, countries," he says, a continent where Africans deal with Africans. But the fragility of these ideas is still painfully evident even to Museveni. He stood at a hotel window in Kinshasa looking across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AN AFRICAN FOR AFRICA | 9/1/1997 | See Source »

San Francisco could take it easy if it wanted to. It could just sit there on the apron of the continent and find contentment in its unfair share of splendor. But America's most hypersensitive city has never been happy without a cause to embrace passionately or, at the very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN FRANCISCO: THE SCARIEST BIKER GANG OF ALL | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

On whatever continent he found himself, Versace seemed to generate the kind of social whirl that in fact might have appealed to Capote. In South Beach, guests filtered in and out of Versace's media room, where the music video of the moment would be playing--often the work of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GIANNI VERSACE: LA DOLCE VITA | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

But in fact no one knows how the expansion will affect Europe or the alliance, how much it will cost or how many years or decades the growth spurt, and the conflicts that come with it, will last. Meanwhile, each time new members are taken in, new dividing lines will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO PLUS THREE | 7/14/1997 | See Source »

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