A body is removed from the wreckage of a building after a bomb went off at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi on the morning of August 7, 1998. More than a dozen people were killed, and over 400 injured, in explosions targeted at the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
TIME chooses Bill Clinton and Kenneth Starr as the Men of the Year while Mark McGwire takes on the Hero of the Year title