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...love him for his nimble skating and fluid style. We love him for his diamond stud and long hair. We love him for these things you can see and sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speed Skating: Ohno Finishes Second — and Wins Gold | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...Sherzai is also under pressure from some of his own tribal allies over the allocation of spoils, and disaffected elements are being courted by more militant opponents of the new government. A landscape teeming with posses of armed fighters of fluid loyalty may already be challenging the U.S. military's determination to avoid involvement in inter-Afghan power struggles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Afghan Chaos Make U.S. Reluctant Nation-Builder? | 2/21/2002 | See Source »

...population is Hispanic, a third is Asian, and the other third is everything else. Many of the city's cybercafes are owned and operated by Korean immigrants and, like their popular counterparts in Korea, the establishments tend to be a magnet for Asian gangs. The gangs are very fluid entities: unlike Crips or Bloods, they don't wear colors, and members don't readily admit to their existence. They were originally formed for self-defense, but have gradually become more offensive, with gangs from different backgrounds (Korean, Vietnamese, etc.) squaring off against each other. "They're not really territorial," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cybercafe Gangs Haunt Orange County | 2/9/2002 | See Source »

...with each of the tribal leaders to get to the point where the things that we are doing in Afghanistan alongside them are good for both the U.S. and Afghanistan." But he concedes that all of Afghanistan is a battlefield. And, he said, "the battlefield will continue to be fluid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Danger Lurks | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...despised. The narrative, which is based on historical sources, unfolds from several points of view: those of an alcoholic widow, a lustful village priest, a cobbler struggling with his homosexuality, a conflicted Inquisitor. Craig has the gift of finding complexity in simple people, and she tells their stories in fluid, shapely prose that blends mysteries both religious and erotic with the scratchy, stinky realities of peasant life. She slips only rarely into the "But what troubles you, Father?" school of historical dialogue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heretic Fringe | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

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