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...protest the European Union's decision to review policy toward the country because of human-rights concerns. Protesters held signs emblazoned with DOWN WITH FASCISM! and LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION! Castro said the change in European policy reflects an alignment with U.S. efforts to isolate the island. Meanwhile In Egypt ... Matrix Unloaded Censors have banned The Matrix Reloaded on religious grounds and for featuring excessive violence. They described it as raising controversial issues about human creation and said in a statement that "screening the movie may cause troubles and harm social peace." The censors did, however, think the special effects...
Until, perhaps, now. A team of archaeologists, radiologists and scholars returned from Egypt earlier this year with what they claim are compelling clues that a stripped and mutilated mummy, first discovered in a side chamber of a royal Egyptian tomb more than 100 years ago, is the lost Nefertiti. The new expedition, funded by the Discovery Channel, will be chronicled in a TV special to be broadcast on Aug. 17. But much of the scientists' new evidence was shown to TIME last week. It is by no means conclusive--much of it is merely circumstantial. However...
...reign of Amenhotep shook things up in Egypt. The priesthood surrounding Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion had accumulated enormous power. Rather than try to wrest it from the priests, the young king simply pulled their religion out from under them. He abolished the polytheistic system and replaced it with a religion based on the worship of Aten, the sun god. The Pharaoh even changed his name to Akhenaten--or "one who serves Aten." This undoubtedly made him a despised figure among the orthodox, a hostility that spilled over to his queen who, if ancient reliefs are to be believed, also...
...summit on TV from Ramallah, the White House having done its best to use President Bush's first-ever Middle East trip to crown Abbas as the new national leader of the Palestinians and consign Arafat to the dustbin of history. Bush pulled no punches during his stay in Egypt, telling a local TV network that "it's impossible to achieve peace with Chairman Arafat." Arafat's objective, by contrast, is to prove that peace is impossible without him. Washington's Arab and European allies have rebuffed U.S. and Israeli efforts to sideline Arafat altogether, recognizing that as the elected...
...estimates run upward of $45 billion for the first year. And having accepted the role as Iraq's effective government for the next year and quite probably beyond, the Bush administration now finds itself confronting problems quite familiar to the Arab leaders with whom he met on Tuesday in Egypt: How to foster democracy in a context where the majority of voters may well favor extremists; how to create legitimate institutions for public participation in government while maintaining overall control; finding the proper role for religious authorities in a culture where church and state are not always separated and where...