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...P.N.G. approaches its 30th anniversary of independence on Sept. 16, it is more dependent on Australia, its former administrator, than ever. Last June, the two countries signed an historic cooperation agreement, with Australia pledging more than $A1 billion in aid over five years. In August, Blackmore was in Bougainville for the first deployment of some 200 Australian police as part of the program. At the same time, in Port Moresby, fellow Time contributor Stephen Dupont found himself face to face with some of the obstacles the police will confront. He had been invited into the safehouse of a raskol gang...
...challenging art-house fare that can be enjoyed as much during the discussion afterward as in the theater. She had chosen Polissons et Galipettes, a compilation of vintage French blue movies. Art or pornography? That's a question neither Michel nor her boyfriend had the opportunity to discuss that August evening in 2002 because Michel, who suffers from brittle-bone disease and gets around in a wheelchair, was barred by a cinema employee from entering the MK2 Beaubourg theater next to the Pompidou Center. The discussion that did ensue was about access rights for people with disabilities. And Michel...
...Melissa August, Harriet Barovick, Jeninne Lee-St. John, Carolina A. Miranda, Julie Rawe and Patrick Stack
...certain quarters, two events in 1987 brought the decade to a symbolic close. Warhol's death in February deprived the scene of its presiding elder, the white-wigged spirit of affectless salesmanship. The collapse of the stock market eight months later gradually squeezed off buyers. By the following August, Basquiat was dead as well. How will the future regard him and his brethren? "Dying young is the easy way out," says Longo. "It's much harder to keep your edge and keep it going." It pays to keep in mind something Zhou Enlai once said. On the bicentennial...
...banking sector is highly fragmented and not very competitive, according to Credit Suisse First Boston, meaning that greater efficiencies - and profits - can be wrung out of them. Lucky Break? Frankfurt prosecutors called off a probe into six Citigroup traders accused of manipulating the European government bond market last August, although a change to Germany's law made since could now make such trades illegal. Financial watchdogs elsewhere in Europe are still investigating...