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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...agents, armed with 9-mm MP5 submachine guns, looked first for Elian's cousin Marisleysis, assuming she would be the one to lead them to Elian. "Where the f------- is the damn boy?" Marisleysis says they shouted at her. She begged them to hold off, she says. "I will give you the boy; just put the guns down!" As they raced through the rest of the house, the agents knocked over a statue of the Virgin Mary and a huge picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the living room. Finally, they kicked their way into the bedroom, breaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Elian Grab | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

Exiled for 30 years, she established herself as an international star, recording with Harry Belafonte (their collaboration won a Grammy), singing for President John F. Kennedy (she performed the same night in 1962 that Marilyn Monroe cooed Happy Birthday) and touring with Paul Simon. Her personal life was sometimes tumultuous--she's been married to South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela and American black-power activist Stokely Carmichael. Now single, she laughs and says she is "too old to marry again." In 1990, after Nelson Mandela's release from prison, Makeba returned to South Africa. On Homeland Makeba's music sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Voice from The Veld | 5/1/2000 | See Source »

...club’s small membership. “The first criterion is that the man be a jolly fellow,” says Greenway, “you don’t have to be a captain of industry.” The club that counted John F. Kennedy ’40 and Eliott Richardson ’41 among its members, now still attract some of the most vibrant intellectuals of the city. New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis ‘48, author James Carroll, a substantial contingency from the Globe including former Globe publisher Benjamin...

Author: By Samuel Hornblower, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Old Boys' Clubs | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

...George F. Pierce has been patrolling since 1970, when Harvard student’s pockets were made of polyester and stuffed with disco passes. Along with his folded domestic abuse forms and translations of the Miranda rights, Pierce’s pockets are home to handcuff keys and a pair of gloves, just in case a person he handles “might not be too clean...

Author: By Nina O. Yuen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Wallets? Lip Balm? Oh, the Humanity! | 4/27/2000 | See Source »

PAUL CRUTZEN 1933- F. SHERWOOD ROWLAND 1927- MARIO MOLINA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Century Of Heroes | 4/26/2000 | See Source »

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