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...turmoil of constant local wars and foreign invasions prompted Jaipur's ruler, Jai Singh II, to begin building Jantar Mantar in 1724. The astronomical observatory would allow soothsayers to monitor cosmic shifts so as to better divine auspicious dates for royal enterprises, and to predict the fate of ruler and ruled. Nestled in the heart of New Delhi, Jantar Mantar today is mainly a tourist attraction, although it continues to function as an observatory of sorts - a window into what the writer V.S. Naipaul called "India's million mutinies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Million Mutinies on One Tiny Street | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

...July 2006, commandos from the Lebanese militia Hizballah stole into northern Israel and, during a firefight, kidnapped two soldiers - Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. Their capture triggered a month-long war in which 159 Israelis and 1,109 Lebanese were killed. But the fate of the two soldiers remained unclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Makes Deal for Prisoners | 6/29/2008 | See Source »

...world will express outrage at Zimbabweans' fate, and likely draw up stringent economic and diplomatic sanctions. But neither is likely to save Zimbabweans from their government - and that is proof of the end of an era. In 1999, the U.N. launched successful military interventions to stem bloodshed in Kosovo, East Timor and Sierra Leone. That was in keeping with a declaration the year before by then U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan hailing a "new century of human rights." "No government has the right to hide behind national sovereignty in order to violate the human rights or fundamental freedoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lesson of Zimbabwe's 'Election' | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...film's action is driven by this complex (and impossible to briefly describe) narrative. The film, a French adaptation of a novel by the American thriller writer Harlan Coben, relies for its seductive power on its characters and their relationships. For example, it's crucial to Alex's fate that, as a doctor, he has paid sympathetic attention to a hemophiliac little boy who is treated routinely by the rest of his hospital's staff. The boy's father is a criminal, whose assistance to Alex when he goes on the run proves vital to his survival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tell No One: That French Mystique | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

...past, Kennedy downplayed it, urging Americans to instead grab hold of the future. He liked to cite Goethe, who "tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, 'Stay, thou art so fair.'" Americans risked a similar fate, Kennedy warned, "if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress ... Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War Over Patriotism | 6/26/2008 | See Source »

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