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...Fittingly, the central character in Michael Jacobs' new play Impressionism is yet another emotionally stunted middle-aged woman (Joan Allen) too obsessed with art to be able to relate to other people. The art, in this case, is a beloved collection of Impressionist paintings in the gallery she owns; the significant other is a globetrotting photographer (Jeremy Irons) who comes to work for her. Again, two excellent actors struggle to bring life to an underenergized wisp of a play whose organizing conceit - we see key incidents from their lives in flashbacks, through the images of the famous paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Wrong with This Spring's Broadway Plays? | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...China's turn to show it's no pushover. In the G-20 run-up, Zhou Xiaochuan, China's central bank governor, published a paper suggesting that alternative global currencies, like Special Drawing Rights - a unit of exchange used by the International Monetary Fund - be considered to replace the U.S. dollar as the world's de facto reserve currency. While some Washington officials rejected the proposal as impractical, China's leaders have been taking steps to show just how nervous they are about a weaker dollar as the U.S. runs up massive deficits to shore up its crumbling economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Takes a Small Step Away from the Dollar | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...been throughout the world, from North Korean souvenir shops to Ethiopian bazaars, for the past six decades. Government officials measure the health of national economies by how many dollars are stashed away in their central-bank vaults. The international prices of everything from crude oil to cocoa beans are denominated in dollars. The dollar is a universal medium of exchange because it is liquid, readily available and backed by the largest economy in the world. There has been little reason for global commerce to function any other way. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Almighty Dollar Doomed? | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...logistics and accurate voter rolls could spell disaster for the more remote regions of Indonesia. But Aceh, a province of four million people on the northern tip of Sumatra, is facing security challenges as well. After a string of attacks by unidentified gunmen over the past three months, the central government is planning to send an additional 1,000 soldiers and 260 national police to join an estimated 9,000 local police officers to help stabilize the restive province. At least 16 people have been killed in shootings and grenade attacks that have heightened suspicions between former separatist rebels from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aceh Ramps Up Security Ahead of Elections | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...describe is an environment in which the absence of an independent investigation system has left police officers virtually immune to prosecution or reprimand and in nearly open conflict with certain sections of society as a consequence," says David Diaz-Jogeix, deputy director of Amnesty International's Europe and Central Asia program. "The failure of the system to fully examine complaints is now leading more and more lawyers to dissuade clients from reporting abuse, with warnings that it will result in nothing and may even generate legal counter-attack." (See pictures of Pakistan's lawyers celebrating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amnesty Report: French Police Above the Law | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

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