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...their own ends. They are incredibly well-organized and ruthless, and the business community has to toe the line." Three years ago, before the referendums, there was room for optimism. The green line was opened to traffic, but in the political vacuum that has existed since 2004, the main beneficiaries of free movement seem to be criminals. "The bicommunal activity to have benefited most from the 2003 opening of the green line," says one U.N. official, "is crime." Dozens of suspects wanted on charges of fraud, rape, attempted murder and other serious crimes are escaping justice simply by crossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Holes in a Hard Line | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...main mouse here is the one attached to a computers. The design of the underworld is pretty splendid, with an imaginative scope and attention to detail that might have taken decades to realize if each piece had to be constructed and painted, rather than simply texted and input. You certainly won't see thumbprints on the characters, as were occasionally visible in the fingers-on-clay movies. This one is as polished as a formica table top in the kitchen of a neat-freak housewife. The question is whether the Aardmen lost some of stop-motion's charm, its humanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Clay to Computer | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...proclaims that such enlightenment will only be reached when we update the tools to face modern challenges. Yet the human condition has changed little since Homer, Dante, or Shakespeare. We are still passionate about love, troubled by death, and profoundly confused as to how to run our societies. The main qualm people have with this approach is that it is difficult; someone has to choose which books to read, and selecting some means leaving out others. There are always going to be difficulties in making such choices, but this does not invalidate the need for us to make them. It?...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: Hard and Right | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

Intangible leadership ability, an inspirational life story, and a message of hope won Deval L. Patrick ’78 the Democratic nomination for governor last month. These qualities continue to set him apart, but in the upcoming election, Patrick’s main draw is his focus on key issues affecting the state. In contrast to his major opponent, Lieutenant Governor Kerry M. Healey ’82, his policies will move Massachusetts in a new and positive direction and provide tangible benefits for students...

Author: By Margaret C. Jack | Title: Patrick: The Right Kind of Leader | 11/3/2006 | See Source »

...education and training give me a better understanding of His creation, so I feel a greater sense of awe toward Him." Both soft-spoken and outspoken, Al-Rawi was entirely comfortable being a professor of geology and a prominent member of the Association of Muslim Scholars - Iraq's main Sunni clerical group, long suspected of ties to the insurgency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baghdad Bulletin: Death Stalks the Campus | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

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