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...much. If anything, his noncompliance served to plant the sneaking suspicion that he's not comfortable meeting Gore in the traditional debate setting - a setting which, although dismissed by Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer as "rehearsed and wooden," provides a familiar and stable backdrop that voters have come to depend on over the last three presidential elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here's an Idea: Let's Have Those Debates After All | 9/14/2000 | See Source »

...campesino, demanding that he grow the volatile crop. Besides the violent threats of the guerillas, many campesinos have no practical option but to grow coca, for they are among the poorest people in the world. Living in makeshift shacks lacking running water and electricity, the majority are undereducated and depend completely on the tiny amounts of money created from their harvests. Without a government to protect their welfare, the fight to survive and feed their own families inevitably leads to falling under the power of the guerillas. It is an unwanted, yet inevitable, event...

Author: By Frances G. Tilney, | Title: Funding the Wrong War | 9/13/2000 | See Source »

Giving the world's richest nation a break on its dues isn't popular among the poorer U.N. members, and how they vote may depend on how Congress votes on another piece of legislation this month. The White House wants to give the U.N. $739 million next year for its peacekeeping operations, which have been growing in number. A tightfisted Congress, however, seems ready to spend only $500 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finances: Dunning the U.S. | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...groused, "You wouldn't want to end up like me. Forced to depend on complete strangers for food and attention!" It flung sea dung at me on a regular basis. Don't say I didn't warn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish and Quips | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...Australian companies. Out of the 224 elected members of the Senate and House of Representatives, which form the Australian Parliament in Canberra, only one is Aboriginal, the brilliant and resolute young politician Aden Ridgeway. Aboriginal influence is exerted mainly through bureaucracy, committees and the courts; for political clout, Aborigines depend largely on the sympathy and support of whites...

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

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