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Still, anti-Syrian Lebanese believe that Damascus is stirring the current violence to force the Western-backed Lebanese government to abandon its support for the tribunal. UNIFIL officials have been concerned for months that the peacekeepers could become caught up in Lebanon's instability, with the chief threat coming from al-Qaeda. Ayman al-Zawahiri, deputy to Osama bin Laden, has twice referred to UNIFIL in recent months. In February, he described the peacekeepers as "international crusader forces" and urged his "brothers in Islam and Jihad in Lebanon" to attack them. Arrested militants of Fatah al-Islam, which includes jihadist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Ominous Attack in Lebanon | 6/24/2007 | See Source »

...Friday's air strike follows a three-day battle between Coalition and militant forces in Uruzgan province in which it is thought that upward of 50 civilians may have been caught in the crossfire, though investigations are still being carried out. And on Monday, seven boys were killed when a US warplane bombed a religious seminary in Paktika, eastern Afghanistan. A coalition press statement released shortly after the attack said that the compound, which contained a mosque and a madrassah, was "a suspected safehouse for al-Qaida fighters" and that coalition forces had confirmed the "presence of nefarious activity occurring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Backlash from Afghan Civilian Deaths | 6/23/2007 | See Source »

...eventually caught up, but ever since, there's been a dialogue between the "real" shows and the spots that pay the bills. The conversational humor of The Office--which Lawson cites as a model for the cavemen spots--owes a debt to the deadpan ads from FedEx, Monster.com and so on that target the same upscale demographic. The crossover hasn't always worked: Baby Bob, a talking-baby sitcom based on an ad, was insipid. But Max Headroom, a black-humored sci-fi series based on a Coca-Cola campaign itself based on a British TV show, was brilliantly subversive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's an Ad. But Is It Art? | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...earlier critics, has the basic evidence that Oswald killed Kennedy been shaken. Fragments of the bullets that hit Kennedy were matched with the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Depository. Oswald's fingerprints were on the rifle barrel. Fibers from the clothes he wore when arrested were caught on the rifle butt. That morning he had brought a long, thin package to work from the house in Irving where he spent weekends with Marina. He explained to the co-worker who gave him a ride that it contained curtain rods for his Dallas apartment, even though his flat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Assassination: Did the Mob Kill J.F.K.? | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...agrees with [that sentiment]. They don't support Bush or the war. I am now in the mainstream majority, which is weird; I don't sit out on the edge, I sit here." Moore ticked off each of his films, and recounted the ways he believes the world has caught up with his sentiments. With 1998's Roger & Me, he took on General Motors and no one listened, Moore said. Today, "they're near bankruptcy." With 2002's Bowling For Columbine, he tried to take on the culture of gun violence, and this year there was another deadly school shooting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Moore: "I'm Mainstream Now" | 6/20/2007 | See Source »

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