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Once the plight of the refugees is addressed, a far more daunting challenge will face all the diplomats who are now speaking earnestly of a solution at last in eastern Congo, whose people have suffered through two wars and numerous clashes since the mid-1990s. Do all those parties with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo Quagmire Finally Grabs the World's Attention | 11/1/2008 | See Source »

Though he's widely traveled and keeps an apartment in Paris, Eggleston has worked mostly in the South. All the same, it makes him squirm to hear people describe him as a regional artist--Faulkner with a Leica. "I have never considered myself making what one would call Southern art...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Light Fantastic | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Early on, George, Being George doubles as a comic history of the élite. There's the Mayflower ancestry and the expulsion from Exeter--followed by a Harvard acceptance letter. ("It was a little easier to get into Harvard in those days," recalls Plimpton's brother Oakes.) The founding of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charmed Life | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Almost everyone mentions his generosity, particularly bottomless when it came to The Paris Review, which he ran out of his home for decades. But what radiates is a person of massive charm, entirely at ease with his own unease. Muhammad Ali, sensing someone who got the joke about himself, called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charmed Life | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Europe fared no better during the initial hours of trading, with London's FTSE 100 at one point dropping 5.6% to its lowest mark since April, 2003. In Paris, France's CAC 40 plunged 5.4%, while Germany's Dax was down 3.3%. Things looked set to begin just as bad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market Gloom Continues | 10/27/2008 | See Source »

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