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...fairness, though, the New Yorkers had free reign to retaliate. Rocker made unsolicited, ungrounded and rude comments about Asians, women, New Yorkers, foreigners and blacks. And the people of the greater Manhattan area fought back with the same weapons: words. The vendors outside Shea Stadium were making a killing selling anti-Rocker apparel. A large majority of the audience donned specially designed T-shirts claiming the standard "John Rocker sucks" to the more creative "Rocker sucks Cox." (The aforementioned "Cox," of course, refers to Braves manager Bobby Cox.) One man proudly displayed a sign meant to read...
...Coca-Cola executive, he has brought to Mexican politics a new, effervescent tonic--change. Everywhere Fox travels, he's greeted with the same shrieking enthusiasm, the same glowing faces and the same optimism. He is a masterly campaigner. Can he win? One of the benefits of the 71-year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (P.R.I.) is that it controls the levers of Mexico's political machine, which makes Fox something of an outside chance. But even if he doesn't beat out the P.R.I.'s candidate--the decidedly less macho Francisco Labastida Ochoa--this Sunday, Fox has certainly changed...
When Mohammed VI succeeded his father, foreign diplomats were not alone in wondering what to expect. During Hassan II's reign, people quipped about Prince One Step--meaning the boy who stood a pace behind his father, rarely speaking, quietly learning statecraft. In the past year he has turned in a stunning performance. His subjects have watched in amazement as he boldly axed his father's powerful old cronies, freed political prisoners and plunged like a pop star into crowds of adoring Moroccans...
...thing the King has not done is speak to the press, foreign or Moroccan--until last week, when he agreed to let TIME follow him on his peripatetic journeys and do the first interview of his reign. During the jog and more formal talks at a peacock-colored palace in Agadir and during a flight back to Rabat, he came off as confident yet modest, part regal, part ordinary guy. Combining a common touch with strategic vision, he may be the most impressive of the new generation coming to power in the Middle East. Moroccans are calling...
...first acts was to dismiss unceremoniously Driss Basri, the powerful Interior Minister whom Moroccans blame for some of the brutal excesses during Hassan II's 38-year reign. The new King also set up a commission to provide $4 million in compensation to victims of political torture in what Mohammed VI calls "moral recognition toward all of these people." He green-lighted the return of exiles, like the family of Mehdi Ben Barka, a friend turned opponent of his father's allegedly murdered by agents in Paris. Last year Mohammed VI sent a secret emissary to France to arrange...