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...former Soviet Union, who built the team that gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport in 1972; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't present for his team's most famous win as he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich games. DIED. BROTHER ROGER, 90, humble, ecumenical theologian who attracted tens of thousands of young followers to his spiritual center in southern France to participate in prayer circles and chants; of stab wounds inflicted by a mentally disturbed woman; in Taiz?, France. Born into a Swiss Protestant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/22/2005 | See Source »

...Soviet Union who built the team that in 1972 gave the U.S. its first Olympic defeat in that sport; of cancer; in Moscow. Ironically, the bespectacled Gomelsky wasn't at his team's most famous win because he had been denied a visa by Soviet authorities fearful he might defect at the Munich Games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Aug. 29, 2005 | 8/21/2005 | See Source »

This is rather a thin tale, not much thickened by Burton's direction or Depp's playing. There's a distance, a detachment to this film. It lacks passion. This was a defect of Dahl's novel as well as the first movie version: they never fully embraced the dark side of the story. Children can handle deeper scares than this movie offers. More important, they deserve edgier, more suspenseful storytelling than it provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: For Wonka, Tooth Is Beauty | 7/10/2005 | See Source »

...interests, minds formed by different histories. Walter Lippmann wrote, "We are all captives of the pictures in our head--our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists." Reagan explained America to Gorbachev. Gorbachev explained the Soviet Union to Reagan. Neither man was moved to defect as a result of the education. More useful than cross-cultural perspective was what each man learned about the other, the lessons of eye contact, of close human inspection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...great document, one which marks an essential date in the history of journalism." J 'Accuse was "an indictment of the forces and virtues of traditional France, its religious passion, military spirit, and hierarchies." Zola's outrage proved contagious. Slowly the bodyguard of lies surrounding the actual villains began to defect. Major Ferdinand Esterhazy, a German agent, fled the country. Lieut. Colonel Hubert Henry, who had forged Dreyfus' handwriting on incriminating documents, committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aftershocks: THE AFFAIR | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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