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...support ethnic nationalism in places like East Timor, but in Serbia that same emotion turned murderous. Religious fundamentalism is fine for, say, Mormons, but when it metastasizes into terrorism, it is noxious. Certainty is fine when the right people are certain, but things get dicey when, as Yeats wrote, "the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Osama bin Laden and the Idea of Progress | 12/21/2001 | See Source »

...exactly a clarion call to compromise - not when 76 percent say the economy will be fine in a year, and more economists than that agree with them. Sure, Wall Street could always use some extra stimulus, and stocks rallied on Bush's we-have-a-deal and sold off on Daschle's not-yet-you-don't. But between Tuesday's good news about the housing market and Wednesday's continued comeback of the index of Leading Economic Indicators, the backdrop of this week's climactic wrangle is less and less one of urgency. (Although Friday morning's University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who's the Grinch of the Stimulus Package? | 12/19/2001 | See Source »

...prices, defrauding art sellers of millions in commissions; in New York City. Despite defense denials, the jury apparently believed star witness Diana Brooks, Sotheby's former CEO, who testified that Taubman helped hatch the scheme in 1993. He faces three years in prison and a $350,000 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 17, 2001 | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...Neptunes, one of the hottest American hip-hop production duos around, the song features a cameo from gangsta rapper Foxy Brown. Utada said her producers were worried at first that she and Brown might not be a good fit, given their different temperaments and backgrounds. They got along just fine. The idea of having her on the song came from Pharrell (Williams, one-half of the Neptunes), says Utada. "He said Foxy and I would make a very strong combination, the two of us being such contrasting characters: the crazy, revealing, in-your-face Ill Na Na (Foxy's nickname...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diva on Campus | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...Cincinnati, Ohio. Waagner, found with $8,986 in cash and a .40-caliber loaded semiautomatic pistol, had escaped from an Illinois jail in February. CONVICTED. A. ALFRED TAUBMAN, 76, the former chairman of Sotheby's, of conspiring with rival auction house Christie's to fix commissions paid by fine art sellers; in New York. His net worth at the time of the scam was $700 million and he allegedly stole as much as $400 million in charges from 1993 to 1999. He faces up to three years in prison. CAPTURED. JOHN PHILIP WALKER LINDH, 20, an American who was among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

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