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Thirty minutes before dawn last Wednesday, Hutu members of the presidential guard kicked in the door of a church just east of Rwanda's capital city of Kigali. Instantly, they opened fire with semiautomatic weapons and tossed in grenades. Then, according to Belgian news reports, they set upon the Tutsi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Streets of Slaughter | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

Warfare was the rule last week. Early Monday morning thousands of Zulus, carrying spears, axes, clubs, pistols and a few AK-47 rifles, surged into Johannesburg's main business district. At Shell House, the 21-story office building housing A.N.C. headquarters, security men fired a fusillade at the demonstrators, turning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Breaking Point in Zululand | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Movies and TV are passive experiences. The VR games are interactive. And the more active you are, the more you can enter into them. Players who hone their kill skills develop a zestful proficiency; they become self-improvement junkies while the merchants get rich. VR can also be a socializing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look! Up on the screen! It's a galaxy! It's a killer robot! It's . . . VIRTUAL, MAN! | 11/1/1993 | See Source »

Long past midnight, top government officials worked feverishly inside the FBI's Washington headquarters to launch an assault by the elite Hostage Rescue Team. At stake were the lives of nine employees at the Talladega federal prison, in Alabama, who were being held captive by a mob of prisoners armed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Under Fire at the FBI | 2/22/1993 | See Source »

Nor does Clinton seem eager to hurl spears at the Democratic special interests that have long held sway over party doctrine. When the Clintons decided to send their 13-year-old daughter Chelsea to a private school, they failed to accompany the announcement with any challenge to public schools or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready Or Not | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

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