Word: breakthroughs
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...Kuwaiti parliament last week, a crowd gathered quickly, noisily, in one of those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political victory. After a nine-hour parliamentary debate, and six long years of delay, a bill granting women the right to vote and to run for public office finally passed. "Our hearts are overflowing with joy and happiness," exulted Fayza al-Awadhi, a member of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural & Social Society. Giving...
...called "the oxygen that they were lacking." The government denies it has already held talks with the organization, but admits to informal contacts with Batasuna. "We have indications that some of them are ready to talk," a senior government official told Time. Still, no one is predicting an early breakthrough. "There is good disposition on eta's part [to negotiate]", insists Batasuna's Otegi. "But we are still in the very preliminary stages." And violence could still erupt. "eta is still capable of attacking and will do so whenever it can," Interior Minister José Antonio Alonso said. Keep those...
...Broken Flowers held promise of being a breakthrough comedy for Jarmusch. Murray, lately the go-to actor for independent-minded directors, has established an amusingly dour screen personality that twins nicely with Jarmusch's. The writer-director shows his understanding of the Murray persona by casting him as Don Johnston, a man who searches for the mother of his son less out of a passion for knowledge than because he lacks the resolve to say no to his neighbor Winston (Jeffrey Wright), who had eagerly proposed the trip. The presence of Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton...
...Fuss, the single from the blind balladeer's album due next month, is enhanced with narration for the visually impaired. As Wonder performs the song onscreen, raspy rapper Busta Rhymes describes the visuals: "Stevie's playing a pearl-white drum set ..." he tells listeners. Calling the project a "breakthrough," Wonder says he's enlisting other artists to add descriptive narration to their videos as well. Before it catches on, we'd like to warn the visually impaired: Christina Aguilera sounds a lot better when you don't know what she's wearing...
...Family One of the vaccines developed by microbiologist Maurice Hilleman [MILESTONES, April 25] came about through a fortuitous family connection. TIME recounted that medical breakthrough in a July 1, 1966, report...