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...bomber killed 30 people at a Netanya hotel during Passover in 2002, Sharon went all out. He reinvaded the cities of the West Bank with brutal force, using the army's presence to get intelligence on the terrorists and to make arrests.He stepped up construction of a controversial barrier, started by Barak, that cut through the West Bank and walled out the Palestinians. In 2004, Sharon ordered the assassination of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and, later, another of the group's leaders, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, steps that previously had been considered too provocative. And he got results; the intifadeh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lonely Warrior | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

...even know what potential I had before making Geisha," she says. She is now shooting the Michael Mann film version of Miami Vice (with Jamie Foxx and Colin Farrell) and will then be in Peter Webber's Lecter prequel Young Hannibal. "I don't feel this is a big barrier for me anymore," she says of acting in English. (Mind you, she says it through a translator.) "I'm very pleased to be working with the best American directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Gong Li | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...have to go discuss something with the ladies at the water cooler.” Muharrar, one of nine women on the 33-member masthead of that issue, is now vice president of the organization. From the start, she says, she never felt her gender would be a barrier. When she came to Harvard as a pre-frosh, she asked a woman on the street how to get to the Lampoon building. The woman showed her how to get there—and then gave her a tour. It turned out she was a member. At the time, Muharrar...

Author: By Jonathan M. Hanover, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Funny Girl Tells Lies at Dinner | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

Security was lax at the Olympic Village. Wearing sweat suits, eight men simply climbed over a 6-ft. barrier around the village at 4:10 a.m. Armed with AK-47s, they rounded up 11 Israeli athletes, coaches and a referee, shooting two dead early on. The terrorists demanded the release of 234 prisoners from Israeli jails. Negotiations were ruled out by the Israelis, but the Germans began fake ones to buy time. In the afternoon, the Black September commander, distinctive in his white hat, insisted that his team and the hostages be flown to Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myths and Reality of Munich | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

...drugs for the rest of her life to ensure that her immune system does not reject the graft. Of all the tissues in the body, the skin provokes a particularly strong rejection response, which makes sense when you consider that one of its functions is to act as a barrier against germs. The weakened immune system that results from the drugs also increases the risk of cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Transplant First | 12/4/2005 | See Source »

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