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...Mugabe is returning the country to a feudal system, just like Pol Pot did in Cambodia," says John Robertson, an economist based in Harare, who predicts that Zimbabwe's economy will shrink 12% this year, which would make it the worst performer in the world. Says U.S. State Department spokesman Philip Reeker: "Mugabe has taken a country that should be prospering, that should be benefiting from its natural resources, including the resources of its own people," and has plunged it "into economic chaos and ruin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eviction Day Arrives For the White Farmers | 8/19/2002 | See Source »

...well-established fact that New Yorkers are a kaleidoscopic breed—New York is celebrated as the city of immigrants, of bankers, of grocers, of restaurateurs, of artists and of actors. But the inhabitants of the Big Apple, that archetype for the American melting pot, all have one thing in common, one shared characteristic that they vibrantly celebrate. They are different, unique, nonconformist and in short, ardently individualistic. The reason real New Yorkers are infamous for their frank and often overly candid remarks is that they are bound by one important law for all their actions—never...

Author: By Ganesh N. Sitaraman, | Title: The Real New Yorker | 8/16/2002 | See Source »

...king, he sold electronic jewelry; he has also managed a British reggae band, appeared on Judge Judy, earned not much more than cab fare as a New York comedian, and ran for mayor on a platform of legalizing marijuana. (He says his loss can probably be attributed to pot smokers forgetting to vote...

Author: By Ganesh N. Sitaraman, | Title: The Real New Yorker | 8/16/2002 | See Source »

...women (oops), but two weeks ago, the scientists found a full skeleton farther down, a 5-ft. 4-in. male whose location and orientation in the grave may indicate high importance. Balancing on the leg bones, says expedition leader Richard Freund of the University of Hartford, was a pot in the style of the 1st century A.D., which places the find in the right era. "There are 1,212 burials at Qumran, but there's only one like this," says Freund. He thinks the bones belong to the Teacher and, therefore, perhaps are the Baptist's. Others are skeptical, pointing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging for the Baptist | 8/12/2002 | See Source »

...seven-story building covered with white tiles at 669 Chuan Sha Road suggests that FLA regulations aren’t always followed. In the Pudong industrial district of Shanghai, off a pot-holed street glistening in the 90 degree heat, rises Shanghai C&F Arts & Crafts, Inc—the sole factory of Harvard licensee C&F Enterprises of Newport News, VA, according...

Author: By Amit R. Paley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In China, Harvard’s Apparel Proves Elusive | 8/9/2002 | See Source »

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