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...become obsessive and anxious over that, whether it is the child's ability to read or the way they walk. This movie says there is no perfect kid; there is no perfect father." And no guarantee that parents will ever have the answers. When Marlin asks the sea turtle Crush how a father knows when his kids are ready to swim out on their own, the wise old dude replies, "Well, you never really know. But when they know, you know--y' know?" Finding Nemo is about feeling one's way to knowing. It's about letting go and getting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hook, Line and Thinker | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...need it soon." Sure enough, 17 days later, Khairurrazi's corpse was lowered into a muddy trench in a village cemetery in Peusangan, an area near Bireun in northern Aceh that has been ravaged by conflict since the Indonesian military last week launched its massive campaign to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement (GAM). As the gravediggers maneuvered Khairurrazi's body onto its side to face Mecca, blood seeped through his shroud. Khairurrazi, always a thin, sickly youth, had expected an illness to kill him. Instead, he was beaten and bayoneted, then shot in the head. "Half his skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Young Blood | 5/26/2003 | See Source »

...most ironfisted crackdowns: scores of Paya's fellow dissidents have been arrested for treason and given lengthy prison terms. Paya, 51, says he's undeterred. "We're the first nonviolent force for change this island has ever known," he told TIME by phone from Havana. "Castro can't crush that, no matter how hard he tries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's Bugging Castro in Cuba? | 5/19/2003 | See Source »

...rebels, for their part, accuse Indonesia's military of sponsoring fresh violence - which has killed nearly 50 people in the past month - to scuttle negotiations and crush the uprising for good. Two offices for international monitors stationed in the country were attacked in April. Witnesses claim a mob of about 500 Javanese who set fire to the Joint Security Committee office in Langsa arrived in army trucks. ?We believe the differences between the two sides are still not that great,? says Steve Daly, a Henry Dunant Centre spokesman. ?Nobody's packing up yet.? That kind of optimism is hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing the Peace | 5/12/2003 | See Source »

...Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) and the Varela Project - have been convicted of treason and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. But Payá, 51, insists his movement is still strong. "We're the first nonviolent force for change this island has ever known," he told Time. "Castro can't crush that, no matter how hard he tries." Cuba's communist regime has rarely if ever faced a dissident who is as hardheaded as Castro himself. Payá, an engineer and devout Roman Catholic who cycles each day to his job as a hospital-equipment repairman, is right when he calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cold Cuban Spring | 5/4/2003 | See Source »

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