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...political freedom Nigeria never had. No matter that for years Abiola was thick as thieves with the military strongmen who were stealing millions from their country; no matter that he pocketed money from sweetheart deals he had cut with the greedy generals. Nigerians were desperate for a hero to worship, and Abiola, who would have been 61 next month, fit the bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Desperate For Democracy | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

BORN. To Woo star JADA PINKETT, 26, and action hero WILL SMITH, 29: a boy, Jaden Christopher Syre; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 20, 1998 | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

LIAISON DANGEREUSE The hero of Philippi dumped his wife, who happened to be the Emperor's sister, to take up with Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes Front! And That Means You, Sir! | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...WHAT HAPPENED] The doctor shot him in the back, then fled to Union lines, where he was treated as a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eyes Front! And That Means You, Sir! | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

...boys and guns isn't an automatic formula for mayhem. Indeed, a student hailed as a hero for stopping Kinkel's rampage belongs to the National Rifle Association. There is something else at work, a toxic combination of biology and environment. However lonely or teased or poisoned by culture, the accused boys all seem to share a deep-seated--perhaps "inherited," as a Kinkel family friend put it--sense of rage. Investigators think Kip shot his father as they argued over his dad's plan to send him to a National Guard program for troubled youths. Kip had been expelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Arms and The Boy | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

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