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...lucky. The fighters included Iraqis, Syrians and Jordanians. They were members of Attawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War), a militant group loyal to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. The group's black flags flutter from the palm trees and buildings along the Baghdad boulevard where we were stopped, an area known as Haifa Street. It's a no-go zone for U.S. forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ENEMY WITH MANY FACES | 9/27/2004 | See Source »

...hard not to pity the Woman in White. The poor, pale lady arrived in London's West End last week hauling a wagonload of expectations. This is, after all, Andrew Lloyd Webber's homecoming. Eighteen years after The Phantom of the Opera, after his American odysseys (Sunset Boulevard and Whistle Down the Wind), his Irish adventure (The Beautiful Game) and his Indian idyll (Bombay Dreams, which he produced), the composer has at last found an English gothic tale with which he might be able to harness the spooky power - not to mention the box-office returns - of Phantom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Damsel In Distress | 9/19/2004 | See Source »

...even more bold insurgent attacks. On the morning of July 7, a 100-person company of Iraqi National Guardsmen ventured onto Haifa Street to set up checkpoints. Almost immediately, they came under fire from the concrete forest of towering Soviet-style apartment blocks that line the wide, four-lane boulevard. After 50 minutes, Task Force 1/9 headed toward Haifa Street to evacuate the Iraqi troops. As a platoon moved toward a former palace of Saddam Hussein's at one end of Haifa Street, another entered the narrow winding laneways of Old Baghdad, dubbed the Maze, and took up positions atop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letter from Baghdad: High Noon On Haifa Street | 8/30/2004 | See Source »

...republic is gone. Disturbed by the increasing pace of attacks against Jews and their property in France, Alain Elbeze, 52, has resolved to move with his wife and five children to Israel. "Look at this," he says, gesturing at the barriers erected in front of his synagogue on the Boulevard de Belleville in Paris' east end. "I didn't have to grow up with this, and I don't want my kids to have to." He's not alone. The Jewish population of France - at 600,000, the world's largest outside Israel and the U.S. - is in an uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fed Up In France ? | 8/29/2004 | See Source »

...tavernas, in the bustling district of Vari on Athens ' southern outskirts. The offal is wrapped in intestines and roasted on a spit. Slivers of meat are then sliced off as appetizers. If you have the stomach for it, try the dish at the traditional Tsolias taverna on 45 Varis Boulevard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Food of the Gods | 8/8/2004 | See Source »

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