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Emancipation broke out last week when COURTNEY LOVE settled her lawsuits with the Universal Music Group. The label let Love out of her contract, and she agreed to let UMG release previously unheard songs by Nirvana, the band comprising her late husband Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and DAVE GROHL. Grohl heads the band Foo Fighters, whose new album, One by One, will be out on Oct. 22; he spoke with TIME's Josh Tyrangiel...
...KRIST AND COURTNEY FINALLY SETTLED YOUR DIFFERENCES OVER THE RIGHTS TO NIRVANA'S MUSIC. WHAT TOOK SO LONG? Legal stuff, mostly. It was a matter of negotiation, and we live in different places and have different lives and didn't always see eye to eye. But the passage of time helped. Most people would expect negotiating with Courtney to be a complete nightmare, like World Wrestling Entertainment or something. But I didn't have to do too much. Thankfully my time was occupied with other things...
...Path to Nirvana (of the feet...
...third Buddha--the so-called sleeping Buddha--may yet exist in Bamiyan, buried just feet from where the other Buddhas once stood. A 7th century Chinese traveler left notes describing the sculpture as measuring up to 650 ft. in length and reclining in a state of Nirvana. (The taller of the two upright Buddhas was just 180 ft.) The statue is believed to be entombed, either buried intentionally before the first Islamic invaders arrived in the 9th century or covered by debris from an earthquake or the natural erosion of nearby cliffs. Archaeologists are debating whether...
...better or worse, Asia owes much of its collective face to a handful of authoritarian, single-minded leaders. They were possessed of a clear idea of where they wanted to take their countries?usually to economic nirvana?and of a supreme self-confidence that they knew best how to get there, even if it meant trampling on liberties along the way. As these strongmen saw it, for many Asian states the stakes were simply too high to take a chance on unbridled freedom: potential unrest in China, the specter of communism in Indonesia, the risk of being overshadowed...