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TIME OF HER LIFE In 1783 a secret admirer commissioned for Marie Antoinette a pocket watch so intricately fabulous that it wasn't finished until 44 years after she died. Swiss watchmaker Breguet is re-creating the piece, which will probably be completed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Queen Forever | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...life story. In this exclusive excerpt, Deng silently addresses a young boy who is helping to burglarize his apartment. How do you make another human understand that you were a child of war? "Picture your neighborhood," Deng thinks, "and now see the women screaming, the babies tossed into wells. Watch your brothers explode. I want you there with me." Our excerpt follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Want You There With Me" | 10/14/2006 | See Source »

...have little patience left for you. I am finished with you, and wish you could have seen what I saw. Be grateful, TV Boy. Have respect. Have you seen the beginning of a war? Picture your neighborhood, and now see the women screaming, the babies tossed into wells. Watch your brothers explode. I want you there with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "I Want You There With Me" | 10/14/2006 | See Source »

...awarded to the victims of priestly sexual offenders. But, as the film observes, the church has not openly addressed the problem they present in any substantial way. And we are left angrily wondering whether there is anything, beyond payoffs, that can be done about this situation. You need only watch the smooth and civilized O?Grady, cracking little jokes as he fences with a lawyer, to understand that a few sessions with a shrink are not going to deliver anyone from the evil he represents. Included herein are the ritual appeals for an end to the celibate priesthood, but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Predator Priest | 10/13/2006 | See Source »

...failure to keep out global culture and to control public space. The Muslim Lite generation is what happens at the meeting point between a repressive theocratic state and Western modernity. When I observe these kids in the throes of young adulthood, their identities seem schizophrenic, irreconcilable. But as I watch how my friends' children grow up, being this way seems the most natural thing in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Iran's Revolution Created 'Muslim Lite' | 10/12/2006 | See Source »

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