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...heads a different party from that of Economics Minister Savisaar and doesn't see why anybody should take issue with the current policies. "When the economy is growing so fast it's very difficult to complain," he says, describing life in the country as being "like a fairy tale." Even fairy tales can have bad scenes, of course. Savisaar is currently negotiating for the government to buy back the national railway, which it privatized in 2001 - a decision it now regrets. Plans to sell the state-owned energy company collapsed in 2002 when the acquiring U.S. firm couldn't obtain...
...nature of family is becoming much more networked and loose." Nuclear Explosions Ironically, Maggie Alderson's latest work of fiction, Cents and Sensibility, centers on a family light-years from her own tight, nuclear unit. It's a patchwork, stitched together from the remnants of previous partnerships; Alderson's tale involves so many offspring that the heroine's father's sixth wife keeps track of her 13 siblings and stepsiblings on a flow chart. Felix Zavelberg might find such a chart useful. The 15-year-old hails from the small agricultural town of Morenhoven, Germany, and is the child...
...perplexing poster hangs in the office of Omar Minaya, general manager of the New York Mets, the newly minted champions of the National League's Eastern Division. It's a promo for A Bronx Tale, a 1993 film starring Robert De Niro about a boy who gets mixed up with the Mob. Why is the word Bronx--as in Bronx Bombers, as in New York Yankees, as in Evil Empire--displayed prominently at the Yanks' crosstown rival? It turns out that Minaya, who grew up a fly ball from Shea Stadium in Queens rooting for the Mets, loves the movie...
...first title for the Mets in 20 years? A nice final frame for "A Queens Tale...
...book Blood Brothers, TIME senior correspondent Michael Weisskopf weaves his own tale of losing a hand in Iraq with the stories of three soldiers who also spent time at Amputee Alley, Ward 57 of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. In this excerpt, the action begins on Dec. 10, 2003, as Weisskopf, 57 at the time, is on assignment in Baghdad, riding in the back of an open humvee along with TIME photographer James Nachtwey and two young soldiers, Private Orion Jenks and Private First Class Jim Beverly...