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...fearing the Central African country's growing wave of genocide. The refugees, many of them Zairean expatriates, others members of the warring Hutu and Tutsi tribes, balanced mattresses, suitcases and sacks of food on their heads, crowding roads to see if the border reopens Saturday. Ethnic cleansing that has swept through Burundi in the past 18 months escalated last week when extremists on both sides killed hundreds of people in a purge. But TIME State Department correspondent Sandra Burton reports that U.S. officials do not yet believe the pogroms will reach last year's epic level of violence in neighboring...
...demands of the intolerant right that we end up by re-electing a president of the incompetent left." Is he right? In an interview with TIME editors today,Massachusetts Gov. William Weld, a popular GOP social moderate, said that he himself declined to run in part because conservative Republicans swept last November's elections with the center's solid support...
When Gloria was finally swept out the front door, James dived out after her. "I grabbed her hand before she floated out of the front yard," he says. "She began paddling, and with water up to our necks, I hung on to her all the way down to the next intersection." The couple could hardly afford to wait all night for help to come. James is 83; his wife...
Indeed, Britain's sedate financial sector was deregulated in the 1980s-and suddenly the aggressive Americans and Japanese came crashing in with giant salaries garnished with even more gigantic bonuses for star traders. Young, ambitious people like Leeson were swept up in the scavenger hunt for talent, and Barings was for the first time managing a new kind of moneyspinner. "Traders were made overnight," says Valerie Thompson, who traded securities for Solomon Brothers in London for 15 years and watched the change. "Managers did not have time to train them properly. Leeson picked up a little bit of knowledge...
...looks a lot better than he did four monthsago, and the rest of us have to understand wecan't make endless demands on the poor bugger,"McArthur says. "When he came here it was likelanding on Normandy beach...it's this poor bastardgetting swept in from Princeton and landing on thebeach and he doesn't know anybody, but I think hecan put it in second gear...