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...WAVE Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim combines jazz, classical music and samba rhythms to help launch the bossa-nova craze of the 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music Goes Global: Border Crossings | 9/15/2001 | See Source »

...question is, assuming bin Laden is behind the bombings, what is the proper response? Should we, as Bush has suggested we will, launch a full-on assault on Afghanistan? It is hard to see what this would accomplish. Afghanistan already knows that America’s military might far exceeds its own. It is already banking on the hope that America couldn’t possibly do anything worse to the country than has already been done. It is also hoping that its feebleness, abject misery and pleading will spare it more damage. Afghanistan knew that harboring bin Laden would...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What To Do With Afghanistan? | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...sure, the U.S. had plenty of reasons to believe Bin Laden would try and strike at its cities. He's tried before, for one thing, and the motivation to launch a spectacular attack would have grown exponentially over the past year as anti-American feeling surged on the Arab streets in response U.S. support for Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Didn't We Know? | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...Finally, after a few hours, the long march of a concert was slogging to its conclusion. Britney Spears came on. The word was that Britney was going to deliver a performance that was too hot for prime time, too sexy for MTV, a performance that would launch her out of the world of PG-13 and into adulthood, if not adult films. Didn't happen. First off, she appeared on stage with circus- type animals - a tiger and a snake. I don't know about your fetishes, but, in my book, circuses are not erotic. I don't typically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At the MTV Awards: Redheads and Circuses | 9/7/2001 | See Source »

...since troops moved in for deployment in Kosovo in the summer of 1999. After a short visit to Macedonia early last week, Supreme Allied Commander General Joseph Ralston reported to the representatives of NATO's 19 member countries that the level of risk was "acceptable" for the alliance to launch the operation. The German Bundestag will meet in special session this week to sign off on its promised contingent of 500 troops, but otherwise there was surprisingly scant political fallout in the alliance's capitals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mission To Disarm | 9/3/2001 | See Source »

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