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A few of the other runners sniggered when they saw Abebe Bikila turn up at the start of the Olympic marathon with no shoes. As a television camera scanned the scrum of athletes readying themselves for the starter's gun, a commentator asked: "And what's this Ethiopian called?" It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abebe Bikila: Barefoot in Rome | 8/6/2008 | See Source »

Past Miriam Makeba Street, between the empty lots and beat-up Edwardian piles that mark the edge of what, before crime hollowed out downtown Johannesburg, were some of the most imposing city blocks on the continent, stands an intriguing vision of Africa. Here, the Yung Chen Noodle Den and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chinese Color War | 8/1/2008 | See Source »

Few of his 40-plus features achieved any kind of release in the U.S., and his only impact on Hollywood movies was that he made a star of a young Egyptian named Omar Sharif. But at film festivals, Chahine was for decades the prime, often the only, representative of an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youssef Chahine | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

Beyond the official maneuvering in the wake of the referendum, however, there's a bigger story. The E.U. is one of the great successes of the post-1945 world - a unique geopolitical experiment that has spread peace and prosperity across a continent that, within living memory, had little of either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EU: Vision Limited | 7/30/2008 | See Source »

Chahine is not well-known in the United States, even to lovers of foreign films. Few of his 40-plus features achieved any kind of release here, and you'll go nuts trying to find his stuff on DVD. But at film festivals, he was for decades the prime, often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youssef Chahine: From Egypt With Love and Anger | 7/29/2008 | See Source »

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