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...southern Russia. After a standoff of three days, security forces stormed the building, resulting in a gun battle that left more than 300 people dead, many of them children. For 30 minutes after the security forces' assault, however, Channel One continued to broadcast a film called Lady With a Parrot, while Rossia aired a travel show called In Search of Adventures. Of the three national networks, only NTV carried live reports from the scene right away. (See pictures of the aftermath of the Moscow bombings...
...More laid-back vacationers also have plenty of options, including a new infinity pool parked in front of the casual Pool Grille, which specializes in fresh octopus and parrot-fish seviche. There's also the palapa-dotted Jumby Bay Beach - brilliant white sand, turquoise water teeming with crimson-colored starfish and a cabana bar that makes a mean piña colada...
...seats, and some 86 parties taking part in the election. The sectarian and ethnic political parties whose leaders tore the nation apart are still the country's most powerful, but they have joined in loose multiethnic and multisectarian coalitions. "Obviously there are still going to be candidates who just parrot what their leader says, but that's not going to be as effective this time," says an official with a U.S.-funded NGO that works on democracy training. Iraq's political class, she says, is learning that "they have to let the public define the issues, rather than defining...
...small group of billionaires and media moguls - led by Warren Buffett and including Ted Turner, George Soros, Bill Cosby, Yoko Ono and Phil Donahue - pool their massive resources to reform the U.S. With the help of a $15 billion war chest and a p.r. campaign starring a talking parrot, the group successfully unionizes Walmart, ends corporate influence on Congress, makes Warren Beatty the governor of California and legalizes industrial hemp. TIME talked to Nader about the origins of his book, its celebrity characters and the U.S.'s real-life political battles. (See 50 entertainment highlights for fall...
...particularly moving because of the fine balance Walter strikes between tough-guy pig-headedness and desperate vulnerability. Given the subject matter, it is somewhat surprising that the movie shows a knack for perfectly timed humor. Some of Eckhart’s best scenes involve him stealing his old pet parrot from his in-laws and then imitating the movements of the bird in order to inspire it to fly away free. In another scene, Unicom’s advertising executives pitch a weight loss powder that promises to be “finally a loss you can feel good about...