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...Republic devotes a cover article to hailing the "conservatism of doubt." For the less bookish, Hollywood spends $130 million on a Crusader epic in which the heroes are 12th century multiculturalists, Christian and Muslim, who want nothing more than love, peace and interfaith understanding. (Such people inhabit 21st century Hollywood, but as columnist John Podhoretz points out, they were nowhere to be seen in 12th century Jerusalem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Certainty | 6/1/2005 | See Source »

...leader of the world's third largest economy has certainly looked in political peril. The nation's unemployment rate is at a post-World War II high of nearly 12%, and the rate of business closures has reached record levels. As a result, the Social Democrats trail the conservative Christian Democrats, the main opposition party in the fall elections, by 15 points in opinion polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schroder's Nervous Days | 6/1/2005 | See Source »

...leader of the Christian Democrats is Angela Merkel, who, as a protégé of former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's, is known to be a tough political fighter, if lacking in Schröder's campaign experience. Should her party succeed in September, Merkel, 50, a former physics professor who was raised in East Germany, would become Germany's first female Chancellor. She has said her immediate focus would be domestic issues, particularly the economy. (She supports loosening job-protection laws, overhauling pensions and curbing the power of trade unions.) But on international affairs, she is likely to be somewhat friendlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schroder's Nervous Days | 6/1/2005 | See Source »

...lease was actually given. "There is no new lease on any of the Omar Ibn al-Khattab Square properties," says one Patriarchate official. Israeli property deals in Palestinian neighborhoods are often kept secret to avoid Arab protests and retribution against locals who sell to Jews. Nevertheless, Palestinian Orthodox Christians have seized on the scandal to push for greater representation in the Patriarchate's hierarchy. There are some 120,000 Greek Orthodox Palestinians, the largest Christian group in the Holy Land, but only one of the 18-member Holy Synod is an Arab. Local members want control of the Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unorthodox Deal? | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

NORMAN PAWLEWSKI, of the Iowa Christian Coalition, on the seven Republicans who helped negotiate the compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 6, 2005 | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

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