" ... this ... volume offers readers a sweeping yet nuanced view of world events in the year 1994. Here ... is history in the making: earthquakes in California and political upheavals in Washington, young athletes speeding to victory at Lillehammer and a once-great athlete running to nowhere on the freeways of Los Angeles. Here are rebellion in Chechnya, a nation reborn in South Africa, the triumphant returns of Jean-Bertrand Aristide to Haiti and Yasser Arafat to Gaza. And there are the scientists and artists, the diplomats and divas, the executives and entertainers ... The book also offers new material created exclusively for these pages from 'Time' White House correspondent Michael Duffy's analysis of Bill Clinton's year to an extensive photo essay on the Winter Olympics. Here, too, are 'Time's' hallmark annual features: the selection of Pope Paul II as Man of the Year ... [and] the critic's choices of 1994's best books, plays, movies, music and television."