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...curse to be beautiful? Tell that to the 6 billion people who aren't. Halle Berry--Miss Teen All-American, runner-up Miss USA and by acclamation one of the world's prime ravishers--is a gifted actress too. She has lent boldness and tact to Jungle Fever, Losing Isaiah and Bulworth; she has captivated TV viewers as Dorothy Dandridge and Alex Haley's Queen. All this hints at some divine conspiracy--or at least a case of unfair genetic competition. A glamour monopoly...
...homey touch, he became, as TIME put it, "a symbol of hope for a new kind of Soviet Union: more open, more concerned with the welfare of its citizens and less with the spread of its ideology and system abroad." What did spread, at home and abroad, was a fever of democratic reform. Soviet satellite states gained independence. The Berlin Wall fell. The cold war faded. The ferment grew chaotic and eventually swept away Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. But for surviving so long and so boldly and imaginatively as "the patron of change," Gorbachev was again TIME's choice...
...when the link is fuzzy. Bush won passage, by one vote in the House, of a controversial bill expanding his power to negotiate trade agreements, after he insisted that he needed the measure to help fight the war on terrorism. Whenever the President was able to draw on war fever, he was given wide latitude by both parties...
...GABON Ebola Is Back Authorities cordoned off a remote region along the border between Gabon and the Republic of Congo after confirming an outbreak of Ebola disease. Fifteen people have died so far from the hemorrhagic fever, for which there is no known cure. The virus is believed to have spread from Gabon to the Congo after an infected woman fled to a village across the border with her baby. Both mother and child later died...
...During the Beatles' grand conquest of America in 1964, when their initial appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show drew an astonishing 73 million viewers and made them an overnight phenomenon, Harrison spent his days holed up in the Plaza Hotel with a high fever while the fab other three paraded around town, wowing the world's press with their vitality and wit. Then it was on to Washington for a concert at the Coliseum before more than 7,000 screaming fans. "It was bloody awful," Harrison told biographer Geoffrey Giuliano. "Some journalist had apparently dug up an old quote...