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...only last year, after serving seven months for reporting cases of forced labor to the United Nations, somehow managed to escape. "The junta is trying to create a very intimidating environment," she told TIME shortly before the demonstration. But the 34-year-old refuses to bow down. "People must stand up," she says, "and choose between freedom and oppression...
Since Seinfeld, "hugging and learning" has come to stand for a certain kind of namby-pamby network comedy. But while there was hugging on The Cosby Show, Dr. Cliff Huxtable's love for his kids was filtered through the wry, no-guff sensibility that Bill Cosby developed on his comedy records. And the learning was literal, as the through line of the series was son Theo Huxtable's struggles with dyslexia. (The plot became poignant with the 1997 murder of Cosby's son Ennis, on whom Theo was based.) It's a sign of how quickly Cosby changed TV that...
...resort sector was a little tired and cookie cutter," says America Online founder and former chairman Steve Case. His own frustration as a traveler led him in August to invest in Cacique, an $800 million, eco-friendly resort planned for Costa Rica's northwest coast. To stand out in the crowded luxury field, a boast about sheets with a thread count of 1,200 isn't enough. So Case and other hotel developers are trying to create a new model for luxury. Unlike the typical, walled-off resort, Cacique's hotel rooms and vacation homes will surround an authentic village...
...Iraq? (Probably a decade, possibly more.) How many troops will be needed? (Probably 130,000 to start, hopefully less.) What will the mission be after the surge? (Get in line - it's anyone's guess.) Will the Iraqis get their act together? (Not soon, as things stand...
...more loyal to Shi'ite militias than to the national government. An American intelligence officer in a western Baghdad suburb reports that the Iraqi police there are so thoroughly infiltrated by insurgents that the entire force is useless. Bush has recently returned to the mantra that as the Iraqis stand up, the U.S. will stand down. But it is an open question whether - or for how long - the Iraqi army can survive after the U.S. leaves...