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...professor, was best known for his studies of people who claimed to have had alien encounters. His 1994 book on the subject, which concluded that "the abduction phenomenon has important philosophical, spiritual and social implications," caused Harvard to consider censure, but a committee later "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom." DIED. RICHARD AVEDON, 81, celebrated art and fashion photographer; of complications from a cerebral hemorrhage; in San Antonio, Texas. DIED. KATHARINA DALTON, 87, British gynecologist and early expert on premenstrual syndrome; in Britain. She began studying the connection between the menstrual cycle and behavioral swings when, as a pregnant medical...
...charge? Sarkozy, 49, has no doubt. During a conversation with TIME last week in his top-floor office overlooking Notre Dame, he rejected the view that France was too stuck in its ways to embrace the kind of dramatic change he envisions - lower taxes, flexible labor markets, more freedom for innovation and enterprise, more equality for minorities. "Is France reformable?" he asked himself, sitting at a long conference table with a dossier-laden desk at his back and a humidor stuffed with good cigars to his left. Then he lunged across the table to press home his point. "My reply...
...Islamic government. Erdogan was jailed in 1998 for violating Turkey's ban on the mixing of religion with politics - he recited a poem that compared minarets to bayonets - but it was that experience, aides say, that convinced him that his party's political survival depended on European guarantees of freedom of expression. As a conservative Muslim, he was well placed to bring traditionalists with him, notes a Turkish diplomat: "It was Nixon who went to China." Rapid reform, however, has done little to impress the opponents of Turkish accession, who focus on emotionally powerful issues like Europe's historically Chris...
Leading a life of careless fun, however, can be difficult when you live in Paris during the 1930s. To the south, the Spanish Civil War is raging with the fascist Nationalists slowly crushing the Republican freedom fighters, and just ahead lies the impending Nazi invasion of France. Although she is eager to ignore these things, Guy and her Spanish roommate Mia (Penelope Cruz) won’t allow her to, by constantly moping and debating over the most recent news reports and, ultimately, by leaving her to join the Republican Army in Spain. Guy and, to a lesser degree...
...conversation, director Christian Johnston would have us remember America’s other war—the increasingly peripheral conflict in Afghanistan. Johnston’s assessment of the original War on Terror largely echoes Sen. John Kerry’s recent charge that official assertions of stability and freedom in Iraq constitute a “fantasy world of spin...