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...this record and in person, Makeba radiates an empathy that is at once regal and motherly. She is concerned but hopeful about her country's future. "I think our people should be commended," she says. "After inheriting all the problems our government inherited from the apartheid era, they tried their best. Change is slow because there's no money. But the very fact that even after all that suffering people are trying to live together and move forward is impressive." Impressive too that after three decades of exile and half a decade of layoff, Makeba could make music as gracious...
...advocate for the teachers and support staff at Buell Elementary School in Flint, Mich., I am compelled to set the record straight about the day that six-year-old Kayla Rolland was shot by her classmate. Contrary to the account of the student that TIME published [NATION, March 13], the little boy who shot Kayla did not have a knife taken away from him the morning of the shooting. Officials who interviewed the staff after the shooting concluded that no one knew anything about a knife (or a gun) before the attack. Michigan has a tough, zero-tolerance law regarding...
...State's record is not encouraging. Last year, in another case, FBI agents found a Russian bug in a room that TIME has learned was used by CIA officials to discuss intelligence. And State's inspector general's report, produced last September, singled out the Intelligence and Research Bureau for loose handling of SCI material, recommending its control over it be taken away. As for the laptop, the search continues, but hopes are not high. Says a U.S. security official: "Nobody has any f______ idea where that laptop is, and they may never find it." Ever more desperate feds...
Boston Marathon, 1997 A middle-aged couple win their respective age groups in near record times, but both are disqualified for not appearing on race tapes or seeming at all sweaty...
...pleased with the court's decision today," said Hilary Rosen, chief executive of the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group that represents the record companies. RIAA also sued Diamond over the first portable MP3 players in 1998, and is currently trying to stop another MP3 network run by Napster...