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...successful entrepreneurs and corporate managers--were being told to kiss some royal butt. Ghana, a major source of human cargo during the slave trade, has been a favored destination for African Americans since it won independence from Britain in 1957. Those who make the pilgrimage often talk of an epic search for their roots and a grand narrative of Pan-Africanism. But increasingly, it's trade, investment and entrepreneurship anchoring those high ideals. Ghana's President John Kufuor has aggressively courted his country's long-lost cousins. Ghanaian government officials are contemplating a bill that would grant dual citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana's New Money | 8/21/2006 | See Source »

...people's business down in Washington, has been "a really good Senator"; second, that he was "particularly proud" of her for bucking a partisan atmosphere to offer constructive solutions on energy, the environment, health care and education; and third ... well, his third point turned out to be about the "epic struggle" of his presidency. For the rest of Bill's 20-minute speech, his wife merited an individual mention only here and there. Everything else was framed in the first-person-plural we. Not that the crowd seemed to mind, judging from the deafening applause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hillary: Love Her, Hate Her | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

With his Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now due out in a DVD set this month and production of his next movie, Youth Without Youth, completed, Academy Award--winning director, vintner and hotelier Francis Ford Coppola talks with TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about why all war movies are antiwar movies, what grapes have done for his filmmaking career and what he has learned from his daughter, Oscar-winning screenwriter Sofia Coppola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Francis Ford Coppola | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

...companies can't protect this information, they shouldn't collect it," says Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). Earlier this year, Google refused a Department of Justice request for collections of search terms, for which EPIC applauded the search giant. But Rotenberg argues that companies shouldn't store search strings at all, to avoid future subpoenas or data breaches. Ultimately, federal legislation may help bolster Internet security. "We need some new privacy laws," Rotenberg says, "because Net users shouldn't be left with the choice of giving up their privacy or turning off their computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What AOL Said About You | 8/8/2006 | See Source »

Memorial building is set to begin The first major construction contract for the World Trade Center memorial was awarded last week, with work set to begin this month--around the time Oliver Stone's WTC epic hits theaters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Next: Aug. 14, 2006 | 8/6/2006 | See Source »

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