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...press. The top brass ordered a clampdown on the release of specifics about the NATO campaign in Kosovo, so military briefers have remained maddeningly vague. Take the oft-repeated NATO goal of "degrading" the Yugoslav military. "Degrading could mean breaking the window of a barracks," says George Wilson, a former Pentagon reporter for the Washington Post. "We don't have any specifics. It's much more restrictive than other wars I've covered." Journalists are getting testy. Last week, when Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon opened a briefing by saying he would take questions "until the cows go home," reporters were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Media: Speak No Details | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...celebrity-obsessed culture, it is no wonder that some root seekers hope to uncover an aristocratic connection. Stokes, the former Dallas principal, thought his family might be related to Robert E. Lee, as several generations had a family member with the middle name Lee or Lea in honor of the general. It turned out that his great-great-great-grandfather had been an admirer, not a relative, of Lee's. In fact, as he went back, Stokes found his first American ancestors were indentured servants. "We came to America basically as white slaves," he says, with a laugh. Lately, Harold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

...ancestry, and early census records were destroyed by politicians and others who did not want their origins revealed. But lately it has become fashionable to be a first-fleet Australian. Likewise, in the new South Africa, nonwhite ancestry for an Afrikaner is not only politically correct but socially advantageous. Former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, once a defender of apartheid, now admits to a Bengali-slave forebear. In the U.S., blacks and whites are cooperating in joint genealogy searches. Says Colorado land appraiser James Rogers, a Caucasian who unearthed a slave ancestor: "It certainly brought home to me that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Genealogy: Roots Mania | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

ANDY & LARRY WACHOWSKI PAST FILM Bound CURRENT FILM The Matrix AGE DIFFERENCE: Larry, 33, is two years older FUN FAMILY FACT: Former carpenters, the brothers built their parents a house RECURRING MOTIFS: Intimidating women HOW CLOSE ARE THEY? "[Gina] Gershon [seen recently in Showgirls] learned that the brothers speak as one." --Chicago Sun Times

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 19, 1999 | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

Foster, like his former partner Richard Rogers (who has a peerage, but no Pritzker as yet), is a pivotal figure in British architecture. But his buildings have risen all over the world, from Germany to China, and at present his practice employs some 500 people. His influence on the profession is enormous. His 1985 tower for the Hongkong & Shanghai Bank headquarters in Hong Kong, for instance, reversed the general dogma that a high-rise office block had to have a solid central core: it is not a "block" but a frame, a vertical web whose generous, open ground level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Norman Foster: Lifting The Spirit | 4/19/1999 | See Source »

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