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...pledged to die a martyr, Yasser Arafat resists intimations of mortality. A year ago, his doctors told TIME that Arafat might have stomach cancer, but the Palestinian leader refused to leave his besieged compound in Ramallah to seek treatment; if he did, Arafat feared, the Israelis might block him from returning. In recent weeks, as his health deteriorated, Arafat's official spokesmen said it was nothing serious. By early last week, Arafat couldn't keep food down; even the cornflakes he ate on Thursday morning had to be pureed. He was unable to move his legs fully and couldn...
...Bush will need China's cooperation. Both the U.S. and China want to block North Korea from developing nuclear weapons, and China has been instrumental in keeping North Korea at six-party talks aimed at ending the country's nuclear weapons program. Beijing and Washington share a deep unease at moves by Taiwan's President, Chen Shui-bian, which they see as steering his island toward independence. Washington would like Taiwan and China to resume negotiations, but, for now, that seems unlikely. America will therefore have to continue its policy of "strategic ambiguity," which does not define the circumstances under...
...that is typical of ukiyo-e?a reminder that pleasure is often best when bittersweet. Soon, however, the public wanted not just emotion but cheap, portable souvenirs of their visits to the pleasure pits?even if they lacked the nerve to actually enter. To the occasion rose the wood-block printmaking business. At first its images were mainly black and white, as they had been almost since the art form arrived from China in the 8th century. By the early 1600s, printmakers had learned how to run a sheet of paper over two identical wood blocks, each one inked...
...when you are dealing with the weight of 86 unfulfilled years and missed opportunity after missed opportunity, the “curse” begins to feel very real. However, this year’s team proved that it had what it took to get around the mental block with a little bit of serendipity and a whole lot of redemption. Sandwiched in between the forceful sweeping of the Anaheim Angels, 3-0, and the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-0, the Red Sox showed their mettle in being the first team in history to come back from...
...Asian strongmen, dazzled by the moves of the new despot on the block: it's a bizarre moment, courtesy of Philip Short, a gifted biographer who knows his communists. (His acclaimed Mao: A Life ran nearly 800 pages.) After Mao's banquet of tyrannies?the Great Leap Forward alone killed more than 20 million Chinese?the Khmer Rouge leader should have been a mere after-dinner mint for Short. But Pol Pot: The History of a Nightmare, the first biography of the dictator since his death in 1998, weighs in at 650-plus pages, and is the most definitive...