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...well be Nordic. (Though, as I was reminded by TIME.com's Tony Karon, my guru in all things political, Jesus was a Semite; if he was tall, lank, bearded and dressed in flowing robes, as von Sydow is, the person he would have resembled most would be...Osama bin Laden.) The actor's iconographic superiority gives this Jesus the big frosty balls to tell his followers, "Do not weep for me. Weep for yourselves and for your children. For a day will come when people will say, 'Blessed are the barren...' " Was Jesus sanctifying gay marriage here...
...justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens are simmering with discontent. NPC petition offices, one of many venues in Beijing for accepting citizen complaints, say they received about 20,000 petitions last year, up 30% from 2002. The success rate of China's petitioners is infinitesimal. Bin, a Chinese photographer who has spent much of the past four years documenting their plight, says he has heard of only one complainant who left Beijing satisfied. "These people have experienced some of the worst things in China, yet at the same time they still believe their complaints will...
...despair, including one man who last April threw himself in front of a train just meters away from his eventual grave. Others succumbed to disease after living in flimsy shacks through Beijing's frigid winters. "I wonder if their families even know they are buried here," says photographer Bin. "People just come to petition, and disappear...
...there will be no attempt here to rank order Morris, Eaves, Knight, O’Leary and Price in a coaching sin bin. But it is fair to say that what Morris did certainly doesn’t put him on a moral low-ground when compared with the other four, and they are all coaching Division I teams again...
...sense of rising optimism fueled in part by the capture of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and in part by recent data gathering. A knowledgeable U.S. intelligence official tells TIME that a recent spike in intelligence has given government officials greater reason for hope than at any time since bin Laden escaped U.S. clutches in Tora Bora at the end of 2001. "There are some channels that are very active," this official says, declining to give details for fear they might "dry up." He adds, "There are a lot of people very confident that they have him narrowed to a certain...