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Ten years ago, the cultural and material poverty of life in Iran would have sent a privileged young woman like her fleeing to London or Los Angeles. Today Seddigh drives a silver BMW, drinks authentic Red Bull, wears Puma shoes and travels regularly to Europe. Her middle-class friends can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Times in Tehran | 6/6/2005 | See Source »

Umberto Eco looks like a genial mentor, white-bearded and approachable, his comfortable rotundity settled deep in the softest armchair of his Milan living room. Yet the 73-year-old academic and author, condemned to international celebrity by his 1980 debut novel The Name of the Rose, is not without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Resounding Eco | 6/5/2005 | See Source »

Time's report on Europe's most influential big-city mayors was a good thing [May 16]. I agree with the views of one of your choices, Klaus Wowereit, mayor of Berlin. He stated that despite financial and economic constraints in our city, "You must show a sense of enjoyment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Town Hall Titans | 6/2/2005 | See Source »

(2 of 2) With controversy came celebrity, and with that, backlash. While at Brigham Young, LaBute, who grew up in a nondenominational church, had joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which owns the university, to become a Mormon: "I was young and searching for things in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's So Good To Be Bad | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

Is Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe trying to set an African record for mass arrests? It certainly looks that way. Two weeks ago, police launched a violent crackdown on illegal traders in Zimbabwe's biggest cities - the government blames them for fueling inflation, now at 129%. Operation Restore Order has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Leap Backwards | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

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