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...first Westerners ever to visit, Xavier's amiable manner and learned discourse is credited with helping open up the nation to outsiders. In India, he is revered by Christians, Hindus and Muslims alike as Goencho Sahib, a healer of the sick, a bringer of good fortune and?his legend taking a more modern twist?one who can bless new cars and trucks. In Malaysia, where he was known for a miraculous ability to call out the names of babies he had never met, mothers hold him up as a model father to errant partners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missionary, Explorer, Hero | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...family had more faith. His nephew James Hyman, for one, argued vigorously for decades that Jenkins was innocent, that he must have been kidnapped on that twilight patrol. But because little information filtered out of North Korea, by the 1990s Jenkins' plight had drifted into the stuff of legend. He had become a curious cold-war footnote, presumed by many to be dead. Only in 1996 did a Pentagon report state that it suspected there were at least four American defectors, including Jenkins, still living in North Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Long Mistake | 12/6/2004 | See Source »

...production attempts the total modernization of the ancient text. It is immediately and unmistakably avant-garde, utilizing nearly every tool available to theater to explore the legend of Medea. The play is intricately choreographed, in many places more akin to modern ballet than to anything Euripides could have imagined...

Author: By Eric L. Fritz, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Updated Medea Frames in Double Vision | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

...very good reflection on the state of this country." OZZY OSBOURNE, British rock legend and reality-TV star, on being robbed of an estimated $3.8 million worth of jewelry while he and his wife, Sharon, were in England

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...crates. The consequences stretch into your adulthood, by which time you will be either a noble hero for hire or a terrifying rogue. The game is far from perfect--there aren't nearly enough diversions from the main story line, for one thing--but in the absence of another Legend of Zelda game, Fable is the best-looking, most addictive fantasy role-playing epic of the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Video Games: Cool Games | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

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