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JAMES GRAFF is TIME's bureau chief in Brussels, where he covers NATO, European politics and pan-European business issues. To report on our Board of Economists meeting, he made his third trek to the World Economic Forum in Davos, where, he says, "there were more billionaires than ever--but this time plenty of protesters...
Ventura's departure from Reform's ranks is only the latest chapter in the predictable tale of fruitless fights for respect by third parties. Reform earned an astonishing 19% of the vote in the 1992 presidential race. But after founder ROSS PEROT's far worse finish in the 1996 presidential contest, the party seemed doomed--an antideficit party in a budget-surplus world. Ventura's 1998 gubernatorial win gave Reform new life and its first major officeholder, but there was no honeymoon. Ventura and Perot eyed each other with suspicion; the two have spoken only twice in their lives. Ventura...
...much-needed renovation of Widener Library. Although Widener is the third largest library in the world, the musty stacks are far from being the University's most glamorous philanthropic cause. So officials say they were not shocked to find that funds weren't exactly pouring...
...millions of Americans who can't start the day without a steaming cup of coffee? Growing dependence on that morning caffeine jolt has made the U.S. one of the biggest coffee consumers in the world, swallowing about one-third of the world's coffee production. Is that good or bad? Hard to tell. Decades of conflicting research about the potential benefits and harm of the popular bean have created so much confusion that most coffee drinkers have long since given up trying to sort...
...responsibility for maintaining Let's Go's factual accuracy, expanding its coverage in the Third World and in general finding those places where the "well-heeled" people don't go falls to r-dubs, for whom eight hours of mindless toil every day for seven straight weeks adds up to "a wonderful experience...