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...South African President Jacob Zuma didn't have enough on his plate, with raging violent crime, unemployment of up to 40%, the world's largest HIV/AIDS population, a recession and the 2010 soccer World Cup, his first few months in office saw a wave of strikes and violent protests against poverty and low wages. Zuma, 67, spoke to Africa bureau chief Alex Perry at his official residence, Mahlamba-Ndlopfu, in Pretoria in August...
...going to help us remove the slow walkers in government and identify and detect where there is corruption, instead of waiting for the auditor general's report. So you see we are reconfiguring government. We are trying to do things differently to achieve the implementation of ANC policy. (See Jacob Zuma's profile in the 2008 TIME...
...realizing when things are not going right. After a decade or so in power, the success of liberation begins to challenge you. The situation tests your clarity, your understanding. And it's after that that many liberation movements have turned into something else and abandoned what they were. (See Jacob Zuma's profile in the 2008 TIME...
Another challenge: Edward is AWOL for most of New Moon. Instead the movie focuses on Bella's relationship with Jacob, the Quileute Indian werewolf played by Taylor Lautner. It helps that Lautner has transformed his abdominal muscles into something resembling armor plate for the role. "I wonder if I might have gone one shirtless scene too many," Weitz says. "Of course, once they turn to wolves, any clothes they're wearing split apart. It's an economic incentive for the disadvantaged Quileutes that they not have to keep going to Target to buy new T-shirts." (See pictures of werewolves...
While shooting New Moon, the cast and crew began to realize that like Jacob, Twilight had transformed. It's a different beast now: not a fast, maneuverable indie franchise but a global juggernaut. The books have hit No. 1 in 15 countries. Pattinson just got back from Japan, where for the first time he heard the same shrieking that he gets in the U.S. "No one could really speak English, but they reacted in the same way as they have around the world," he says. "Even the distributor was saying, Japanese audiences don't react like this." (See pictures...