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...such stories seem comical, there is nothing amusing about the raging anti-Western and anti-Jewish sermons that often blare out of the kingdom's mosques. Hard-liners in the pervasive religious establishment pose an absolute obstacle to liberalism, whether barring the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution or classes in figurative painting. An obsessive suspicion of Israel permeates Islamic teaching, Saudi-style. Earlier this year, a leading imam issued a fatwa against Pokemon, the Japanese animated series, after rumors spread that the name of one of the most popular characters, Pikachu, was a wily code...
...TIME: So when you pose nude, it's actually an empowerment message? Kyoko: Yes. In nude portraits, there's porn and there's art. We consider what we do art, and we think of ourselves as art objects. I direct all our projects, do the styling myself, pick photographers and locations. No nipples, no pubic hair. We think we happen to look more beautiful with our clothes off than on. And we don't really care if others approve. To the Japanese, we look like anime characters anyway. Most stars here look like the girls next door. But Mika looks...
...hiked up the acropolis, toured the ancient Agora and struck a snapshot pose at the grounds where Pericles once preached the wonders of democracy. You've bought a lamp of Aphrodite with a clock mounted in her belly, and you've paid $8.99 for a slice of mousaka that tastes like the rubber Parthenon you picked up for the folks back home. What next? Get out, out of the tourist rat-runs and into Psirri and Votanikos. There lie the liveliest new quarters of old Athens. Once home to the country's best craftsmen, Psirri, a honeycomb of one-room...
...Sayyaf in the Philippines pose no threat to the stability of the government in Manila, and their kidnapping and banditry makes them unpopular even in the mostly Muslim southern islands. Still, the fact that the government of President Gloria Arroyo moved quickly to deny that the U.S. would play any direct military role in the Philippines underlined her caution over being too closely identified with...
...refugees also pose a military obstacle for any U.S.-led coalition. Taliban forces moving about with the multitudes of refugees would be more difficult to isolate without inflicting civilian casualties. The coalition is now struggling with whether to tackle the refugees before a major military campaign, to which Britain is partial, or keeping the focus on capturing Osama bin Laden even if this exacerbates the refugees' problems, which Washington has advocated. Outside Kandahar, the Taliban are stopping families at gunpoint and turning them back from the border road. U.N. officials say the Taliban are letting some women and children through...