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...chaos while saying that they are maintaining Islamic values." On the streets outside the campuses, intimidation is also rife. When more than 10,000 people gathered outside Tehran University on Students' Day, they were constantly moved on by police wielding truncheons. Shirazi helped one woman who had been beaten limp out of the fray; she saw another arrested by plainclothes security agents and taken away. "Don't tell us how to live, what to wear, what to eat and what not to eat!" she said. Her frustration with the regime is widely shared among ordinary Tehranis. But people have other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Power to the People, Anger in the Streets | 12/15/2002 | See Source »

...with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even the searchlights that for a time stood in for the Twin Towers were a limp steal from Albert Speer's light-cathedral at the old Nazi rallies, an unhappy bit of involuntary symbolism if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mighty Medici | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...whose sole purpose is to be judgmental to judge you in a situation in which everything from your posture to the lint you forgot to pick off your jacket lapel is being actively scrutinized. Great eye contact? A perfect 10! Ladies—legs crossed demurely at ankles? 10! Limp handshake? Unfortunate, 8. Cell phone go off? Sorry, back to square...

Author: By Sue Meng, | Title: Imaginary Lint | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

...with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even the searchlights that for a time stood in for the Twin Towers were a limp steal from Albert Speer's light-cathedral at the old Nazi rallies, an unhappy bit of involuntary symbolism if ever there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mighty Medici | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...virgin. Just before the medical exam, she is abducted by aliens and impregnated. Alex Cheung's parody of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Star Wars climaxes with a madcap battle between Darth Vader and a sleazy detective in drag. One lightsaber becomes a numchuk; another goes limp at a fatal moment ("Should've had my battery charged"). This is a wildly, almost self-destructively inventive comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh, Brothers! | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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