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When delegates to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank conference arrived in Washington, D.C., for an April gathering, they were met with the same taunts that had greeted conventioneers at the World Trade Organization talks in Seattle the previous December. Some called them protesters (there were between 10,000 and 35,000 of them in D.C., depending on whose estimate was believed); others called them anarchists. Under either name, their gripe was globalization: the enrichment of multinational corporations at the expense of the environment and the poor. An affiliation of activist organizations coalescing as the Mobilization for Global Justice...
...year-end issue is not just an occasion for a summing-up in words but also a showcase for TIME's extraordinary photographers, and they had a privileged view of the year's biggest story. WILLIAM COUPON, who has done portraits of six previous Presidents for TIME, took the cover shot of George W. Bush at the Governor's Mansion in Austin, Texas, on Monday, Dec. 4, minutes after he got word of the U.S. Supreme Court's first decision in his favor. That put Bush in an upbeat mood, and Coupon found him to be a relaxed and cooperative...
...using vouchers in Cleveland but also 8,000 kids in Milwaukee, Wis., and 52 in Pensacola, Fla., who are beneficiaries of similar programs. And George W. Bush's most controversial education proposal--$1,500 vouchers for kids in failing schools--could be dead. Court watchers take note: as in previous church-state cases, the key vote, as in the election case, appears to belong to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...
...future? The tenth century was called by Henricus Luce "The Ottonian Century" for the dominance of the Holy Roman Empire, but will the Empire maintain its hegemony, or will new challenges arise to its control? Think also of the changes in daily life: Now, just like in all previous societies, most of humanity scratches out a living from small dirt fields in grinding, famine-prone poverty, and vast numbers of children die before age five...
...veteran of managing 26 buildings at Harvard, Heywood sees the house as an extended family. He had enjoyed his previous tasks, said Heywood, "But this is more...