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...quiet British protests about American activities on the island. Instead, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Extraordinary Rendition has begun an investigation, raising a variety of pointed questions about the island with Gordon Brown's Labour government. Speaking to the BBC, Labor MP and Foreign Affairs Committee member Fabian Hamilton said this week, "I think it's important the British government makes plain its ... deep concern that it's not being told the truth and that our territories are being used for these purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Source: US Used UK Isle for Interrogations | 7/31/2008 | See Source »

...rainforest's lush vegetation to retreat, rest or replenish supplies. Half a million Colombians are estimated to have moved into Ecuador with them. (Ecuador has recognized about 60,000 as war refugees.) Muddy Ecuadorian border villages like Puerto Nuevo are growing and are now overwhelmingly Colombian, says Fabian Narvaez, head of the Ecuadorian Army's 4th Division, which defends that turf. Most, he says, are poor and hard-working; but "some of these settlers are probably tied to illegal activities," he says, adding that informants often give the FARC early warning of Ecuadorian military patrols...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South America's Most Troubled Border | 4/18/2008 | See Source »

...that change. "A lot depends on the mood after the Inauguration, as to whether the new U.S. Administration will want to be connecting to the multilateralist argument, in which case Brown will be in the right place," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Labour-affiliated think tank the Fabian Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gordon Brown in America | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...film Kiss of Death. But offscreen, Richard Widmark played the true gentleman. Over his career, the chiseled, unconventionally handsome actor portrayed a vast array of characters--from frontiersman Jim Bowie in The Alamo to the head of a psychiatric institution in Cobweb to the corruptible boxing promoter Harry Fabian, one of his most memorable roles, in Jules Dassin's Night and the City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...aide). But the idea that there's no smoke without fire is deeply rooted in British public life, and a pall hangs over Downing Street. "Britain remains a very clean political system, but you have this public sense of something being up," says Sunder Katwala, general secretary of the Fabian Society, a left-of-center think tank. He speaks of a "corrosive lack of trust" that is undermining the credibility of the political system. There's little evidence that voters are worried about whether honors were waved hypnotically in front of round-eyed donors. Three-quarters of respondents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Blair's Disappearing Act | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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