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...cling to your ideologies so firmly, you trivialize history. And if you trivialize history you destroy education,” he said...

Author: By Derek A. Vance, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: At KSG, Experts Consider Media’s Role in Elections | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...religion in the modern world," he says. Although Kadivar does not consider himself a political activist, he admits that he is driven by a desire to undo religious despots who have hijacked the Islamic revolution. "What the people wanted was something different," he says. "Who were [the mullahs] to destroy it?" Iran's clerical court recently threatened to defrock Kadivar if he persists in voicing such views. Although he is free to don civilian attire now that he has left the Qum seminary, he says he will keep wearing his clerical robes as a symbol of defiance. If his message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democracy: Forging the Future: Reclaiming Islam for a New World | 5/3/2004 | See Source »

...official insisting to CNN that no such deal had been struck. Even if it does go through, the proposal to send in a unit cobbled together from recalled elements of Saddam's army (and one that may be more inclined to enforce a cease-fire rather than to actually destroy the insurgents) highlights the strategic dilemma posed by Fallujah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Solution at Fallujah? | 4/29/2004 | See Source »

Unlike antiglobalization radicals, Lula, 58, insists he's not out to destroy the new world order. He just wants it to work more fairly. Though corruption allegations against top aides and economic troubles have caused Lula problems at home, he has become the developing world's new spokesman, a pragmatic populist who matches his anti-Yankee bluster with economic sobriety. His successes with pension and tax reforms have made Wall Street want to samba. Lula is often cited as the first leader to apply the social activism cum fiscal realism of Europe's "third way" to places where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva: Voice of a New World | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...time bomb than on the ticking inside it: abstract images on a videotape, an aquarium tank full of dead fish, a water stain spreading on a ceiling. His heroine-victims, often preadolescent girls, are guilty only of the original sin of being human; they may finally neither destroy nor exorcise the demons haunting them. Nakata knows dread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hideo Nakata | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

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