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...when he was carried to his grave two years later, his casket was accompanied by all the clergymen of the city, every one of them, of every faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Citizen Ben's 7 Great Virtues | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...play the role of seductive ingenue was another. Here was the man who believed that necessity never makes a good bargain, that God helps those who help themselves, sent off to perform a spectacular tin-cup routine. It was all the more spectacular in that Franklin had grave doubts about the proposition. He was firmly of the opinion that America should not flounce about "suitoring for alliances." As it turned out, the maxim-defying years he spent begging in France saw the greatest political feat of his life and one of the greatest political triumphs of American history, yielding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winning a Wartime Ally: Making France Our Best Friend | 7/7/2003 | See Source »

...suspect in the Bali blasts were tracked down to a town in southern Sumatra. Alerted that something was wrong when police moved in to arrest a third JI suspect in the same town, Azahari and his companion fled, escaping moments before the police arrived. That narrow miss could have grave consequences. "Commanders like Azahari are the dangerous ones," says a senior regional intelligence official. "If we can get Azahari and maybe seven or eight others like him?cut off the head of the beast?then the ordinary foot soldiers won't be much danger any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poisonous Minds | 6/23/2003 | See Source »

...accidental. Someone hacked at the woman's face with a sharp instrument, and similar damage was done to the boy's chest--just what might be expected during a postmortem desecration of unpopular figures. (A cavity in the woman's chest was likely the incidental handiwork of later grave robbers.) "The damage to the mouth is appalling," says Fletcher. "It looks completely malicious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: Nefertiti Found? | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...fired 10 of 12 senior police commissioners and called on Congress to impeach the widely despised Supreme Court. He also forced more than 50 military generals and admirals into retirement, naming lower-ranking generals in their place. Kirchner said his anticorruption drive was crucial to solving the country's grave economic crisis. See Also: Latin America News MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. Welcome Home Troops! The Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, is offering free sex to the first 50 soldiers from the Iraq war who show up. The brothel will issue them with the erotic equivalent of the military...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

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