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Saturday night in Baghdad, and Heidi, the barmaid at the Baghdad Country Club, is worried about the beer. On a busy night, she might serve 800 cold ones to the diplomats, security guards and construction workers who frequent the Country Club, a white cinder-block house with blue trim on a residential street in the Green Zone. The BCC, as it's known, gets its alcohol from suppliers outside the walls, but insurgents are targeting the crossings on either side of the Tigris River. On this Saturday, a truck bomb on a bridge has locked up traffic on the west...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Green Zone | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

...more obvious cause for alarm. The Sunni residents of Adhamiya are already prisoners in their own neighborhood. Leaving the neighborhood necessitates traveling through Shi'ite territory, so few take the risk. Meanwhile access to basic goods and services is slowly being choked off as the area comes under frequent mortar attack. With this ancient Sunni community slowly being strangled to death, its residents were unlikely to rejoice at the prospect of being surrounded, "for their protection," by a 15-foot-high barrier of gray concrete slabs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Walls Don't Work in Baghdad | 4/24/2007 | See Source »

...Jacob’s past confronts him, forcing him to understand that he needs to stop running away from it. As he does this, he is drawn into Jorgen’s household and learns the strength and significance of familial connections. Strong actors carry the film, which features frequent close-ups of their faces. Emotions run the gamut in “After the Wedding,” and the characters’ eyes, whether tearful or pensive, tell all. As the film is in Danish, the foreign -language factor could potentially scare away many casual viewers...

Author: By Michelle L Cronin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: After The Wedding | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...hotels and go and ask why. Why do we do that? Why do we play the Girl from Ipanema when no one in the bar is over the age of 40? Why do we have to tow that pianist out? Why do we grab that bag off that frequent business traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Road with Andy Cosslett | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...Winthrop House English concentrator and publisher of The Harvard Advocate. On Monday, Savage brought in the first national reporting Pulitzer Prize for The Boston Globe in 24 years. In a series of articles, Savage’s reporting showed Bush’s frequent use of “signing statements”—official assertions by the president of his power to ignore certain provisions in laws he deemed unconstitutional. The statements are not confidential but Savage was the first to reveal their systematic use. “It was hiding in plain sight...

Author: By Gabriel J. Daly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Savage ’98 Wins Pulitzer Prize | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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