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...ally in Muslim human-rights lawyer Aliyu Musa Yauri, who argues that harsh sentences are giving Nigerian Muslims a bad name: "Unless the Muslims of the world stand up and reinterpret these laws, we will find that the other religions will be laughing at us." And crying foul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Casting Stones | 9/2/2002 | See Source »

...important decision. The theater has the power to confront such issues because it's primarily entertainment." Rylance also quotes Shakespeare on the role of an entertainer from As You Like It: "Invest me in my motley: give me leave/ To speak my mind, and I will ... / Cleanse the foul body of the infected world." To mourn, to discuss, to try to make things better - the arts world has set itself a mighty task following Sept. 11. And the words are starting to flow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finding the Right Words | 8/25/2002 | See Source »

...been said that you can gauge her mood by whether her hair is straight (foul) or curly (ebullient). These days her mane is growing wild, with good reason. She and her husband, New York Times reporter Bernard Weinraub, have their first child, and with hits like Panic Room, Spider-Man and Men in Black II, the chairman of Sony's Columbia Pictures has generated more than $1 billion at the box office this year. Some in Hollywood are skeptical about the profitability of films with such expensive stars and special effects, but her summer slate of pictures has broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Women Who Run Hollywood | 7/29/2002 | See Source »

...lobbied hard to make sure the E.C.B. would get Trichet's - and France's - leadership next year. But now the race is on to find another French candidate from a very short list of suitable alternatives. Christian Noyer, former E.C.B. vice president, has been mentioned, but he may fall foul of rules that say board members' terms are "nonrenewable." Of course there is always the possibility that the French will swallow their pride and let the position fall to a capable outsider. But although the E.C.B. sets crucial monetary policy for 12 nations and prides itself on independence from politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Things Get Tricky for Trichet and the E.C.B. | 7/21/2002 | See Source »

Less than a month after the original ruling against Hardy, the warden sought another way to keep Yoder from going free: he petitioned the court to commit Yoder to a mental hospital. The court was provided with a copy of another foul letter signed with Yoder's name. Addressed to a state judge, it describes, quite graphically, how the writer would rape His Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: They Call Him Crazy | 7/15/2002 | See Source »

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