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...there are rumors of military intervention in Burundi. Talks to arrange power sharing between warring Tutsi and Hutu factions are faltering, economic sanctions have not cooled the fighting and the violence threatens to spill over into Tanzania. Museveni told TIME that before U.S. ambassador Michael Southwick left Kampala at the end of July, he delivered a "verbal note" warning Uganda against exercising a military option in Burundi. Says Museveni: "I ignored it." The Ugandan President has also been told by Washington to keep out of Kenya, where riots are undermining the increasingly troubled regime of Daniel arap...
...population into a hierarchy of governmental committees to which members were elected as individuals, not party members. The U.S. accepted it when Museveni called this system an indigenous democracy, even when he won the presidency in 1996 by the same method of no-party elections. But last month Southwick blasted new legislation institutionalizing the system as "the functional equivalent of a one-party state." He is worried that the economically liberal President is moving toward political authoritarianism, making him "a bit dangerous" as a regional model...
Museveni called Southwick's noisy exit "rude." He is tired of the "shallowness" of Western thinking that demands that Uganda instantly model its politics on the U.S. "Unless you say all the societies in the whole world are uniform, then you cannot say their political management must be uniform," says Museveni. He believes Uganda has not "evolved" to the stage of development where multiparty democracy is possible or successful; it is still a preindustrial society that does not have enough of the well-off, well-educated middle class upon which Western democracy rests, so parties form along tribal, sectarian lines...
...talk host Larry King, 63, swears off marriage every few years, but then hope triumphs over experience. His latest intended is Shawn Southwick, 37, who will become Mrs. King No. 7. They met in front of Tiffany in Manhattan, but now she is sporting a gumball-size diamond from Harry Winston, down the street...
...starts like this. A little girl in Southwick, Massachusetts, watches her older brother play basketball on the hoop in the driveway. So she plays too. "I just wanted to do what he did," she says now. Soon she is not so little. She grows to 6 ft. 4 in. and becomes the star forward/center of the Connecticut Huskies basketball team. Then she learns her mother has breast cancer. "I began to focus on what I did on the court, because I could control what I did on the court," she says. "I couldn't control what was happening with...