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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...less needy, greedy path, fueled more by appetite than hunger. We're introduced to Child as newly arrived in Paris in 1948 with her husband Paul (Stanley Tucci), a diplomat she met and fell in love with in her mid-30s. They are a marvelously believable pair of soul mates; Tucci makes the transition from playing Streep's gay minion in The Devil Wears Prada to playing her lusty spouse look effortless. Ensconced in a beautiful apartment, Julia and Paul eat, make love and eat some more. "French people eat French food every single day!" Julia enthuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Julie & Julia: Streep, Ephron and the Joy of Cooking | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

Mohammad Javad Larijani, a Berkeley-educated mathematician, has been a member of parliament, Deputy Foreign Minister and adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Bagher Larijani, a physician, has served as Deputy Minister of Health. And Fazel Larijani, a diplomat, spent years posted in Ottawa. All five are bearded and bespectacled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Iran's 'Kennedys' Challenge Ahmadinejad? | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...Ethiopia's rain-fed agriculture is "shockingly vulnerable" to small variations in the patterns of rainfall, says one Western diplomat, and the country has no chance to recover from the last drought before the next one hits. "The impact of last year works through this year," says Jolanda Hogenkamp, the World Food Program's Deputy Head of Programs in Ethiopia. "The picture we see now is more or less the same as last year. Largely the same numbers and same areas." (Read: "Famine: Hunger Stalks Ethiopia Once Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought and Famine: Ethiopia's Cycle Continues | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...Another top Western diplomat puts it more plainly: "This year's problem is very serious because last year's was serious." And with aid funding drying up and the Ethiopian government restricting help from NGOs, next year can only be more serious still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought and Famine: Ethiopia's Cycle Continues | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...struggle was under way in Pyongyang and that Kim might not be long for the world. Foreign Ministries and intelligence agencies in East Asia - Japanese, South Korean and Chinese - and the U.S. are not of a single mind as to Kim's health, but the U.S., says a senior diplomat in Seoul, has concluded that "he may be around for a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Clinton Reverse the U.S.–North Korea Downward Spiral of Diplomacy? | 8/5/2009 | See Source »

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