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But while my encounter with Sept. 11 was so limited, I found myself bandying about terms exhausted by their own size: words like democracy, capitalism, poverty, Islam and America. Although I took part in the troubling discourse, I grew wary of analysis that clung to these terms, and I grew...

Author: By Christine A. Telyan, | Title: More Humanity, Less Theory | 9/16/2002 | See Source »

Naipaul is at his most incisive when he hits closest to what, for Americans, is home: Norman Mailer's quixotic 1969 mayoral campaign in New York City (his slogan: "Get Ready for the Norman Conquest!") or the 1984 Republican Convention in Dallas. It's a little unsettling to be seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Scholars | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

SUKHBAATAR, MONGOLIA—It was raining that night. A few flashes of lighting were followed by a steady shower. The droplets scintillated as they passed by the high intensity arc lights. It was a late summer night in a railyard in Sukhbaatar—or Sukhe Batora as the...

Author: By Noam B. Katz, | Title: The World's Wilderness Park | 8/16/2002 | See Source »

On the agenda: everything from reunions of separated families to rebuilding a railway across the heavily mined dmz dividing North and South. In a surprise move, Pyongyang has already agreed to send athletes to the Pusan Asian Games next month, the first time North Koreans will take part in an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Light from the North? | 8/11/2002 | See Source »

Spy Kids 2 The spy kids are Carmen (Alexa Vega), who's goodhearted but sort of bossy, in the manner of know-it-all big sisters, and her little brother Juni (Daryl Sabara), who has more gumption than common sense and needs lots of rescuing. To put it simply, their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Midsummer Movie Mayhem | 8/5/2002 | See Source »

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