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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Silence Is a Sin | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Suppose, for example, that the black intellectuals who have been burning up the Internet to castigate the alleged shortcomings of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s television series Wonders of the African World were to devote an equal amount of brainpower to publicizing the AIDS epidemic. They might come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Silence Is a Sin | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

You can print this," says Jesse Ventura, eating a banana and a granola bar. He's still miffed about that damn Playboy interview, the one that sent his polls plummeting. "That was my fault in simply not saying 'some,'" he explains. "Had I simply said some religions are a sham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

This is what it's like being Jesse Ventura at the millennium: you're always being dragged into the ring--by reporters, by opponents and by yourself. You're the Governor of Minnesota, and what you most want to do is, well, govern Minnesota. You've got plans: you want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Alas, he doesn't have the luxury. Instead, the experience of being thrown "off message," as the pols say, has left Ventura in a bind. He wants to have a national influence, although he vows not to run for President next year: "I have no desire for that job." Ventura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Ventura: Keeping His Eye on The Ball | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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