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...most wanted man in the world. For a decade Rwanda's alleged genocide financier, Félicien Kabuga, has evaded trial for crimes against humanity and genocide. According to an indictment from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), Kabuga secured weapons and transport for extremist Hutu militias in 1994, as his RTLM radio station was inciting mass violence. So when the U.S. launched a 2002 campaign to bring the génocidaires to justice, it started with a $5 million reward on Kabuga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rwanda's Most Wanted | 9/26/2007 | See Source »

...licien Marceau) is a French sex farce with more head than bed in it, though on Broadway it tries to keep grinning from leer to leer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Shell Game | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...this point, Vadim's amused, amusing manner suggests that he is merely playing games of love. But suddenly, surreally, as in the cautionary cartoons of Honoré Daumier or Félicien Rops, the mask of painted sophistication is ripped away to reveal the grinning skull with its swarm of worms. In a vicious series of rebounding betrayals, the husband is murdered, the wife is disfigured, the virtuous young mother goes insane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: An Evil Marriage | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...Belgium's three immortal heroes in World War I, two were King Albert and Desiré Félicien François Joseph Cardinal Mercier. The third was Adolphe Max, Burgomaster of Brussels. Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Two Burgomasters | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

Listed in the general pussification was an original Rembrandt etching ("The Holy Family With Cat"); an Egyptian tomb cat from Cairo; a 15th Century German woodcut; prints by Whistler, Pennell, Félicien Rops, Foujita, Wanda Gag; Currier & Ives lithographs; needlepoint and embroidery cats; and a fine carved cat by Sculptor William Zorach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Eternal Theme | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

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