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Egyptian human rights activists have spent years searching for evidence of the torture of detainees in police stations, detention centers and prisons, but few were prepared for such evidence to begin arriving in the form of a graphic cell-phone video. Even more shocking was the fact that the graphic...
Breakfast at Tiffany's set Hepburn on her 60s Hollywood course. Holly Golightly, small-town Southern girl turned Manhattan trickster, was the naughty American cousin of Eliza Doolittle, Cockney flower girl turned Mayfair Lady. Holly was also the prototype for the Hepburn women in Charade, Paris When It Sizzle and...
THE U.S.: GO YANKEES What economists are struggling to predict is how pervasive the impact of this housing slowdown will be on the rest of the U.S. economy, and abroad. Perhaps most surprising, American consumers are continuing to spend, regardless: automobile purchases are sluggish, but retail sales rose by a...
Leaders from the creationist Christian community and evolutionary biologists called on President Bush Wednesday to recognize the imminent threat that current fossil fuel use and climate change pose to the environment. Issuing a “call to action,” the coalition, which includes Harvard scientists and evangelical...
For the past eight years, photographer Marcus Bleasdale has been documenting life and war in Congo. His pictures on the following pages were taken mostly in 2006, as Congo's 60 million people prepared for the country's first free elections in four decades. Officially, war ended in 2003. But...