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...modest talk fool you. Chua-Eoan is no shrinking violet. A native of the Philippines, he started working at TIME 10 years ago, answering phones and taking lunch orders as the Saturday secretary for the Nation section. Last week, for the first time, he was acting editor of the Nation section and someone else took his calls. In between, he has written stories on everything from pets to Raisa Gorbachev, from the history of World War II to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Two years ago, our sister publication People magazine spirited him and his menagerie away. But life at TIME...
...nightmare of relentless inflation and widespread shortages. Dapo, a 33-year-old journalist, lost his job several months ago and cannot find a new one. The fees at his four-year-old son's religious school have risen from $23 to $114. The rent on the family's modest flat in Lagos has doubled to $36.50 a month. A bag of cassava flour that sold for $13.60 when the couple married in 1988 now goes for $50 or more. "Five years ago, I thought that by now we would have a fine home and two cars," says Dapo...
...many weeks away from Washington at these August sanctuaries, only editorialists, not the public, seemed to object. Absent from this list is Jimmy Carter, whose peanut farm left no trace on the citizenry's imagination; after he left office, however, Carter did have built as a country place a modest log cabin in the Georgia woods, making him, as was said at the time, the only person ever to go from being President to living in a log cabin...
...Letterman, 46, remains an aloof, almost opaque celebrity. In conversation he is articulate, disarmingly modest and genuinely, effortlessly funny. Having shed 30 pounds since last year, he seems more relaxed and upbeat than ever before. Yet he guards his emotions tightly and talks only reluctantly about his private life...
Sudan's presence on the terrorist list makes little difference to Khartoum. Trade with the U.S. is now banned, but it was always modest. The designation formally denies Sudan all U.S. foreign assistance, except for about $71 million in humanitarian relief for southern Sudan's homeless and hungry people. In reality, economic and military aid has already been suspended. "The real thrust of this decision," says the State Department's McCurry, "will be to isolate Sudan from the community of civilized nations." That may only push Khartoum deeper into Tehran's embrace...