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...face of it, those are not promising materials for creating a Nigerian version of Nelson Mandela. But in a country where everything but misery is in short supply, people have learned to make do with whatever is at hand. Daily life in Nigeria deteriorated disastrously under Abacha's dictatorship as the economy and infrastructure crumbled. Unemployment and corruption inflamed ethnic animosity. The facts about Abiola became far less important to people than the image they could build around him of a democratic future they yearned to have...
RECREATION Golf with Jack Nicklaus; hiking, horseback riding and bike riding. In the evenings guests appreciate entertainers like Jay Leno, Willy Nelson and Linda Ronstadt. This year James Taylor will sing...
JOHANNESBURG: Graca Machel may become a first lady for a second time -- and of a second country -- on Saturday. South Africa's media is awash with reports that President Nelson Mandela plans to celebrate his 80th birthday by marrying Machel, 52, his companion of two years. "Mandela is staying coy and there's no certainty, but the signs are that there may be a small wedding at his home on Saturday," says TIME Johannesburg bureau chief Peter Hawthorne. Machel is the widow of Samora Machel, the first president of independent Mozambique, who died in a plane crash in 1987. South...
...YORK: Well, they can?t all be bulls. But FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz says that despite Intel's after-the-bell report Tuesday that its second-quarter earnings declined 29 percent from last year to 66 cents per share, the chip maker?s stock shouldn?t take too much of a hit -? because on Wall Street, as in Washington, the spin?s the thing. "Although the published expectation was higher, at 68 cents, the way Intel announced it was much more important than the actual number," says Schwartz. "They predicted a better performance for the next quarter," and that...
...Three's a Crowd, "the game that determines who knows a husband best, his wife or his secretary." Match Game is always packed with bawdy jokes ("I said 'buns'!") and the best of those '70s stars who seemed to exist solely on game shows. Where have you gone Charles Nelson Reilly, Jo Anne Worley, Brett Somers, Nipsey Russell, Arte Johnson and Jamie Farr...