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...Chronicles, a normal guy often experiences a life-changing event, usually with the help of some fantastical device. Ultimately, his struggle is psychological, and so it is in these short stories. Katagiri, for instance, needs giant insects to help him realize he must battle his personal frustrations before they destroy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Shook-Up | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

...also think Saddam can be taken down much more quickly-and with fewer troops and fewer casualties-than the generals have led Bush to believe. Because these advocates contend the U.S. faces such danger from Saddam's swelling arsenal of weapons of mass destruction that it will have to destroy Saddam sooner or later, they say it's better to get it over with sooner. This camp is led in public by Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld and his fiercely gung ho deputy Paul Wolfowitz. But most longtime Bush hands agree that its vital spiritual leader is the backroom Vice President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Over Iraq | 8/6/2002 | See Source »

...best-run airport, but it's still not good enough. Why? The numerous checkpoints, the random searches of infants and grandmothers and the constant scrutiny are more than enough. No matter how much security is in place, there will always be people who will stop at nothing to destroy our liberty. What's next, setting up metal detectors outside every citizen's front door? CHAIM THEIL New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 5, 2002 | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...leader of the Armed Islamic Group (gia), which was formed after the Algerian military canceled 1992 legislative elections to prevent an Islamic fundamentalist party from winning; in Tamezguida Forest, Algiers. Upon being made leader of the antigovernment gia in 2001, Tourab was quoted as saying, "We will continue to destroy their harvests, take their goods, rape their women, decapitate them in the cities, the villages and the deserts." He died in a military sting operation. DIED. GERHARD WESSEL, 88, former official in Hitler's anti-Soviet spy operation and head of the West German intelligence agency, the Bundesnachrichtendienst, between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

...Arab world may give the President's political handlers pause. Hawks will argue that he has before him an historic opportunity to remake the politics of the entire Middle East on terms favorable to Washington; skeptics will warn that he could be initiating an epic quagmire that will destroy his presidency and commit the U.S. to a messy, even ruinous colonial mission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer of Saddam | 7/31/2002 | See Source »

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