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It is, in short, the very darkness, the possibility of degradation, that makes his people (and perhaps their creator) feel alive. Most modern visitors are content to portray the contemporary subcontinent as a bright and shining Silicon Valley East. Many Indian novelists sit within the cozy traditions laid down by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Theroux: The Elephanta Suite | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

Shakespeare's Wife is as much a social history as a biography. In some of its most fascinating passages, Anne becomes the vehicle to convey Elizabethan rituals and beliefs. During her labor, midwives likely drew the curtains and lit the fire: bright light, they thought, might drive a laboring Anne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Anne Hathaway | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

But Bush, bolstered by the relatively good news from Baghdad, appears to be in no mood for compromise. The President looked as comfortable as ever delivering his favorite tropes Wednesday. He beamed as he said, "The greatest weapon in the arsenal of democracy is the desire for liberty written into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Risky Vietnam Gambit | 8/23/2007 | See Source »

All of that was applauded by a Bush Administration, "This is one more example, along with the new U.N. mandate, the neighbors conference process and recent announcements by Saudi Arabia to open an embassy and forgive Saddam-era debt, of a growing international desire to help Iraq become a stable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France "Turns the Page" on Iraq | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

"It has not been lost on us that the road to Washington passes through Baghdad, and we happily took note that the U.S. was the first to react to [Kouchner's] visit with praise," a French Foreign Affairs Ministry official told TIME of this first voyage to Iraq by a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France "Turns the Page" on Iraq | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

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