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...have a very intense fan base. What is your relationship like with the Cult? Around 10 years ago, three people came to a reading in New York and asked if they could be the official fan site. They said, "We don't need anything from you - you'll just know we're out there." I sort of shrugged and said, "Yeah, go for it." And since then it has become so enormous. I contribute critiques and lectures about aspects of writing. They send me six or eight stories each month and I go through them and I offer my feedback...
...surprises? TIME made Health Minister Barbara Hogan one of our 100 most influential people two weeks ago. In one of the more surprising moves, Hogan has been dropped from the health portfolio and moved to the less impressive public enterprises portfolio. As an AIDS activist in the country with the world's biggest HIV/AIDs population, Hogan might have been great - and a refreshing corrective to Mbeki. But she is also a person of singular conscience - and criticized her own government's decision to refuse the Dalai Lama entry to a conference in South Africa last month. Even after 15 years...
...Many of those Christians bowing their heads before a statue of the Virgin Mary were hoping that the power of prayer might nudge along the Israeli security bureaucracy. Six weeks ago, 250 Christians applied for permission from the Israelis to exit the locked down Palestinian enclave of Gaza for a day to see Pope Benedict XVI as he visits in Israel on his tour of the Middle East. The Pontiff arrived in Tel Aviv Monday, but so far Gaza's Christians haven't heard if their permit applications - and prayers - have been answered. "The Pope is an inspiration...
...born reporter of Iranian and Japanese descent had become a cause celebre back home in America because of her incarceration and sentencing. A former Miss North Dakota, she studied journalism at Northwestern University before moving to Iran six years ago. Before her press credentials were withdrawn in 2006, Saberi had been a freelance reporter for various media outlets, including the BBC World Service, NPR, and Fox News...
...published an open letter last month declaring that Saberi was his fiancee. He told TIME that he believed it was in great part because of his endeavors that Saberi was being released so quickly. He said he had a meeting with government and judiciary officials a few days ago, in which he explained to them the importance of Saberi appearing at the opening of his new film on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, "because she was going to talk about the Persian Gulf. I told them it would be good for Iran." Ghobadi has cited Saberi...