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...less reluctant to give London a makeover for Blowup. "I actually painted trees, streets, houses. ... I changed a small part of London to make it more London than London." Under his brush, the grass was greener, the phone booths a more violent red. (Redgrave was given auburn hair.) The intent this time was not political. It was to show the power that a visual artist has over reality - and the limits of that power...
...Japan, a nation not known for in-your-face protesters, voluble writer and peace activist Makoto Oda was an anomaly. In 1965, citing his core belief in "100% freedom for the individual," the author of the best-selling travelogue I'll Go Everywhere and See Everything co-founded a grass-roots "citizens' league" to oppose U.S. involvement in Vietnam. His group gained converts and motivated a generation of young Japanese activists. Oda, one of TIME ASIA's 2002 heroes, was 75 and had cancer...
...Faced with this litany of despair, many Republican faithful, from the grass roots to the Capitol, have concluded that Fred Thompson, the preternaturally avuncular actor and former Senator from Tennessee, is the cure-all for their party's ills. Thompson has yet to enter the presidential race. He has, in fact, postponed until after Labor Day an official announcement that was supposed to be made in July. And yet Thompson already shares front-runner status with former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani in some national polls of G.O.P. voters. "People are not inspired; everyone's flat-lining," says...
...There are millions of acres of wild places, from tall grass prairies to mangrove swamps to alpine forests, that have been saved thanks to the Nature Conservancy. Botanist Richard Goodwin was one of the founders of the Conservancy in 1951, and he fervently believed that environmental protection begins at home. Goodwin donated the farmland he lived on in Connecticut and constantly pushed to expand the group's preservation efforts. So far, the Conservancy has protected well over 100 million acres (40 million hectares) in the U.S. and nearly 30 other countries...
...both substance and significant promise. Four new host congregations will announce themselves in August, and more are in the pipeline: NSM has received hundreds of calls from interested congregations and participated in 33 phone conferences and 15 visits working out the details. The movement draws from an actual grass-roots network but has also garnered support within bodies as big as the United Methodist Church. Its solid biblical underpinnings make its issue particularly promising for the resurgent religious left, and it may peel conservative Protestant Hispanics from the right. It speaks in absolutes--God calls believers to tend...