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RELINQUISHING. Bill Gates, 50, Microsoft chairman and co-founder; his day-to-day responsibilities running the software giant, as of July 2008; in Redmond, Wash. The move will leave executives Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie, whom Gates named to succeed him as chief software architect, to face challenges from competitors like Google that provide user-friendly software over the Internet. Gates, a 2005 TIME Person of the Year, said he plans to focus more on his philanthropic work...
Vince Camden is 36, single, broad shouldered and thin, like a martini glass. He has made a new life for himself in Spokane, Wash.--where he has been stashed by the FBI's witness-protection program--running a doughnut shop and selling weed and credit-card numbers on the side. His contact in the Spokane Police Department assures him that the mobsters he ratted out back East are all dead or dying and don't care about him anymore. So why is there a contract killer in town looking to put a bullet through his eye? Camden will eventually...
...appreciate the full extent of the horror these people have experienced all their lives. As we debate U.S. involvement in Sudan, perhaps we can spare a few minutes to consider the plight of those innocent souls pictured so well by TIME's reporting. RICHARD B. LAWSON Mountlake Terrace, Wash...
...Many European governments have adopted a 'see no evil, hear no evil' approach to what the CIA has been doing in their backyards, but that won't wash any more," the report states. "Several European nations have been the United States' partner in crime," says Larry Cox, Amnesty's USA executive director. "The bottom line is that without Europe's assistance, fewer men would be denied basic rights...
...does this physically by turning the stage into a 7.5-m by 4.8-m swimming pool through which her actors move, and imaginatively by cutting the action between real and mythological time. Even when the village women gather to wash clothes, the constant call of the conch reminds them of a more spiritual life beyond the lagoon. Devised by Nawalowalo and her four actors, Vula evokes a state of being as natural as the tides. "You shut five Pacific Islander women in a room," the director says, "and then you come out with this piece that's that kind...