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...that looks like Nike's swoosh with a foxtail attached. Li says the affluent Chinese he is now targeting are too young to remember his feats on the pommel horse. "I wish I were as popular as I used to be," Li says with a sigh. It's a fate Jordan, 39, has also suffered. Sales of the Air Jordan are down this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Global Briefing: Jul. 29, 2002 | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...where the real power lies. At the opening hearing for five men accused of allowing a massacre at a church in Suai, the five army Chiefs of Staff attended with their wives, a dramatic reminder that those supporting the defendants are more powerful than those who will decide their fate. On Thursday morning, the trial of Yudyat Sudryato, a commander of the military's Kopassus special forces, was in session. About 40 Kopassus members faced the judges from the gallery, decked out in full uniform, red berets tucked under shoulder straps and daggers hanging from their belts despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to Grips with History, Jakarta-Style | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...push on a new range of whizzy phones that can take, send, and receive color digital photos. Holiday snaps don't sound especially revolutionary, but to hear the networkers talk, multimedia messaging is just about the biggest thing since rechargeable batteries. mmO2 chief executive Peter Erskine even tempts fate by invoking that dreadful New Economy buzzword, killer app. Pure hype? Maybe not. Wireless operators are looking hopefully to Japan, where Vodafone's subsidiary J-Phone already has more than 40% of its subscribers using camera phones. And this wasn't the result of any giveaway subsidies on the handsets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pretty Picture | 7/28/2002 | See Source »

...goddess were to grant Khudu Karmakar the awesome powers he expected from a virgin's death, the victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore off her blue skirt and pink T shirt, shaved her, sprinkled her with holy water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Killing for 'Mother' Kali | 7/22/2002 | See Source »

...rich in phosphate deposits and fishing grounds. The Spanish were in pre-democracy turmoil and washed their hands of the Saharawi people, most of whom now live in vast desert refugee camps across the border in Algeria. But, perhaps ashamed of their politicians having abandoned the Saharawi to their fate - which was to wage a long guerrilla war against Morocco - the Spanish people have adopted them. In the refugee camps outside the Algerian town of Tindouf you see 4WD vehicles, solar panels, stoves, medical supplies, torch batteries ... all gifts from Spanish fund raisers. Several thousand Saharawi children spend their summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rocks and Hard Places | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

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