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...hardly be called a brighter side, but for now, at least, the Palestinians in Lebanon have stopped dreaming of going home. "With Sharon, we can never hope for anything good," says Mohammed Safad, 59, working a cigarette cart at the entrance to Sabra. "He will never let us return. He only says no, no, no." That seems to be the kind of realism Israel's new Prime Minister is aiming to instill in Israel's standoff with the Palestinians. But as the uncertainties in Lebanon suggest, it may not be enough to bring peace to the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can't Go Home Again | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...flare and attention to aesthetics. One landscape of a pyramid taken by Francis Frith depicts the subtle beauty of the pyramids of Saqqara. His use of light and shadow rivals many Ansel Adams landscapes. The printmaking is of such high quality that the footsteps and the tracks of the cart Firth was pulling his camera equipment in can be seen snaking through the photograph. In spite of these few photographs made with great artistry, most of the images in display seem to be staged, trite, commercialized depictions of the Middle East...

Author: By Trevor D. Dryer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sight-Seeing or Seeing Sights? | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

...Will anything get done? Absolutely not - hearings are for grandstanding, not negotiating (though the two are cart and horse), and the witnesses' main task will be to serve as straight men. After all, with the House vote a few days away (in which they get to see how well Gephardt is able to hold his troops together), they're in no particular hurry - and they've got the numbers to hold this thing up for quite a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You Shouldn't Expect a Tax Cut Until at Least April | 3/6/2001 | See Source »

They face some consumer resistance. It's hard to pay a stranger to cart away a computer you bought for $2,000. Yet by the time you're ready to part with that machine, it's often so obsolete that no school or charity will take it. If you put it on the curb with the trash, however, it will end up in a landfill, where toxins could leach into the soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How do you Junk your Computer? | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

...around a Bombay apartment house where Vishnu, the tenants' drunken factotum, lies in his appointed sleeping place on a stair landing either dying or perhaps already dead. The two Hindu families on the first floor, the Asranis and the Pathaks, squabble over who will pay for the ambulance to cart poor, unsightly Vishnu away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seven New Voices | 2/12/2001 | See Source »

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