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...Sunni Muslim boy. Because Wahhabi doctrine regards Shi'ites as infidels, they have frequent run-ins with the mutaween over their religious practices. Non-Wahhabi Sunnis also regularly run afoul of the mutaween, who - in accordance with Wahhabi doctrine - bar them from celebrating the Prophet Muhammad's birthday or performing certain rites during burials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vice Squad | 7/26/2007 | See Source »

...Chicago while still a teenager, moved to New York City in 1976 to be a theater director. But instead of working on Broadway, he wound up creating glittering theatrical magic for the soirée set. Baloun invented a life-size Hungarian town square for financier George Soros' 70th birthday. For a New York City welcome for Prince Charles, Baloun conjured up a forest of trees in a towering tent at Lincoln Center, complete with painted stars on the ceiling. The price tag for such rarefied celebration could reach $10 million. Baloun, 61, died from pancreatic cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 23, 2007 | 7/12/2007 | See Source »

...about to end his job as chief of France's judicial counter-terrorism section, and prepare for "retirement" next year by taking up an advisory role. Earlier this year he took a leave of absence to campaign, unsuccessfully, for a seat in parliament. Facing obligatory retirement on his 65th birthday, sources close to Brugiere say he's looking to serve as a consultant either in France, or to an international body such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France Loses its One-Man War on Terror | 7/6/2007 | See Source »

...week shy of his 21st birthday in June, Shia LaBeouf spent a morning learning to drive bizarre, top-secret vehicles alongside Harrison Ford. This fantasy gig started, as Hollywood fairy tales often do, with a summons to Steven Spielberg's office two months earlier. "Steven said, 'You ever seen Indiana Jones?'" the boyish-looking actor recounts, while chain smoking outside the Burbank, Calif., strip mall where he buys his daily Boston Market chicken and Robek's fruit smoothie ("The parking lot of dreams," LaBeouf calls his suburban stomping ground). "I said, 'Of course I've seen Indiana Jones.' He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kid Gets the Picture | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...perhaps my experience wasn't so random, after all. Sure enough, a few days after the forum, I received an e-mail from a friend saying his home in Cape Town had just been burgled on his birthday and two laptops, four passports and $5,000 in cash had been stolen. He dubbed it "that extra-special South African birthday surprise." A new dawn may be coming, but it isn't here quite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Investors Fear to Tread | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

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