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...have to be effectively blessed by foreigners--a point not lost on Iraqis. "They cannot fix a wrong with a wrong," says Salah Hassan Habib, 22, a butcher in a Shi'ite neighborhood in Baghdad. "The next government should be elected." The U.N.'s reputation in Iraq is hardly lustrous: ordinary Iraqis suffered for more than a decade under sanctions enacted in the U.N.'s name. Also, since Saddam's fall, the newly free Iraqi press has uncovered evidence of massive corruption in the U.N.'s oil-for-food program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shifting Power | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

DIED. FRANCES DEE, 96, smart, lustrous star of Hollywood's golden age; in Norwalk, Conn. As a lark, after the University of Chicago, she took a bit part in movies and graduated to co-starring roles in such films as An American Tragedy, Little Women and I Walked with a Zombie. Equally impressive by Hollywood standards, she sustained a 57-year marriage to actor Joel McCrea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Mar. 22, 2004 | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...glory of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Where his previous solo outings have been difficult, lo-fi affairs greeted with lukewarm receptions, Shadows is a glorious, epic album by an artist at the peak of his powers. Frusciante’s voice, distinctively thin and with a soulful, lustrous falsetto, is finally strong enough to carry the weight of his songwriting talent, which has never been greater...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

...this apparent foresight, L'Oreal's recent stock performance has at times been less than lustrous. Its P/E ratio has more than halved over the past three years, suggesting the market feels that its growth prospects have slowed. Analysts cite the company's big ad and promotions budget and the fact that its manufacturing is less efficient than that of its competitors. Says Citigroup's Smith: "L'Oreal has the cost structure of a prestige cosmetics house, yet only 25% of its products are in the prestige category. The rest is mass market." Such criticisms draw a scathing response from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marketing: Because They're Worth It | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

...tend to think of as the “real” Cambridge) can claim to beat the home of veritas, but the open field is definitely one of them. One of my most indelible memories of a visit to King’s College last summer is that lustrous, uniform surface of perfect green. It has been tended for centuries and is one of the college’s status symbols, along with the chapel and the wine cellar (which you should definitely check out, should you ever get the chance...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: First-years on the Grass, Alas | 10/22/2003 | See Source »

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