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...usually the case when His Grandiloquence gets into trouble, Jackson has a scapegoat. According to friends, he privately accuses the same vast right-wing conspiracy that tried to destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton of orchestrating a campaign to discredit him because he led protests against the alleged voting-rights abuses in Florida. So far, he has offered no evidence that the charge is true. But from Jackson's standpoint, the timing of last week's bombshell--right after the holiday named for his hero, Martin Luther King Jr.--could not have been worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of The Rainbow | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...Stanford told me last week, a reporter from the Enquirer came to her L.A. home offering "up to a million" in exchange for her story. She says she declined. But as Stanford notes, there are plenty of disgruntled former Rainbow staff members around who "hate Jesse and want to destroy him" so much they didn't need cash as an incentive to spill what they knew. It was Jackson, in his arrogance, who provided them with the squalid tale that may bring him down. To appropriate one of Jackson's slogans, his time has gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End Of The Rainbow | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

...result, not one cow in America has so far been found to have BSE--and the U.S. Department of Agriculture has an aggressive plan to find, quarantine and destroy any if they appear. "Even if you do eat beef from an infected cow," says Michael Scott, a molecular biologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who has studied the disease in cattle and humans, "you have a very low risk of contracting VCJD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can It Happen Here? | 1/29/2001 | See Source »

More Graphics Workplace Safety Afghan Targets Anthrax Pathogen A Ground War An Uneasy Ally Targets Hit Search & Destroy Firepower & Food Frozen Assets Safety Guide Middle East Leaders Agents of Death Afghanistan Military Buildup Terrorist Cells Our Weapons Paths of Destruction Twin Terrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Standing Their Ground | 1/28/2001 | See Source »

...straphanger standing on the bus because he couldn't get a seat is George Soros, the global financier who has the power to destroy a whole Asian economy with the click of a mouse. That guy in the pizza parlor who looks like Bill Gates - chances are it in fact is the world's richest man. The bearded guy who just skidded awkwardly by on the icy sidewalk - Saudi oil minister Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, who with a couple of words into his a cell phone could drive up the price of gasoline at your local pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Men Who Run the World Are Thinking | 1/25/2001 | See Source »

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