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Maxwell is, quite simply, another spoiled brat that today's sports-craving society built. As the media whirlwind that is the O.J. Simpson trial has made painfully clear, we manufacture our sports heros to be larger than life, and we don't expect them to falter...
Before TV cameras, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his Cabinet spun a whirlwind of threats and possible further moves to get at the elusive terrorists--including an international campaign to cut off donations to Hamas from charity groups in the U.S. and elsewhere, and drafting all eligible Israeli youths into the police force, rather than the army, ostensibly to fight the group. "There's a political necessity for creating a lot of noise and the illusion you're doing something," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...
...from Al Gore to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams ended a 20-year ban on official U.S. contacts with the political wing of the Irish Republican Army. It was the latest benefit of an IRA-declared cease-fire that went into effect September 1. Adams is currently on a whirlwind tour in the U.S. drumming up support for increased economic aid to Northern Ireland...
...Latin America. China is the biggest prize: during the next five years, as it struggles to industrialize as rapidly as possible, the People's Republic is expected to go on a $1 trillion shopping spree for foreign technology. Leading a group of 24 U.S. business executives on a whirlwind trip to China two weeks ago, Brown helped net deals worth nearly $6 billion. The agreements included a commitment by Shanghai Airlines to purchase 11 Boeing 757 passenger jets ($1 billion), a telecommunications contract for AT&T ($500 million) and a $1 billion deal for the New Orleans-based Entergy Corporation...
...that the condemned person remains alive while the organs are removed, according to the study. "That is vivisection," said an Asia Watch researcher. The report comes at a sensitive time -- just as U.S. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown is preparing to escort a group of top U.S. ceos on a whirlwind tour of China. Hours before his arrival on Saturday, police detained prominent dissident Wang Dan, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and an outspoken critic of Beijing's policies...