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...properties in Omar Ibn al-Khattab Square, just inside the Old City's Jaffa Gate, to Jewish investors. That inflames Palestinians because they believe the Old City should one day become part of a Palestinian state. Israeli security officials tell Time that the Patriarchate-owned New Imperial Hotel and Petra Hotel were leased through a U.S. shell company, perhaps by Ateret Cohanim, a nationalist Israeli group that buys properties in Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem to prevent them being turned over to the Palestinians in future peace talks. Ateret Cohanim officials deny they have leased the buildings, but reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unorthodox Deal? | 5/29/2005 | See Source »

...surf. British film director Richard Attenborough lost his 14-year-old granddaughter, Lucy, in Phuket. Attenborough's daughter, Jane Holland, 49, and her mother-in-law are missing. So is British fashion photographer Simon Atlee, 33, who was on vacation in Phuket with his girlfriend, Czech model Petra Nemcova, 25. Nemcova suffered a broken pelvis, but survived by clinging to a palm tree and floating in the water amid bodies and debris for eight hours. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl watched the tsunami from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Thalpe, Sri Lanka. "I recalled images from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In The Waves | 1/2/2005 | See Source »

...started looking at photographs late at night before going to sleep, because I wanted to learn about photography and absorb the information that can be uniquely documented in a picture. This way of learning by contemplating photographs, just as Nachtwey did with Cartier-Bresson's pictures, continues. Petra von Schenck Wiesbaden, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...started looking at photographs late at night before going to sleep because I wanted to learn about photography and absorb the information that can be uniquely documented in a picture. This way of learning by contemplating photographs, just as Nachtwey did with Cartier-Bresson's pictures, continues. PETRA VON SCHENCK Wiesbaden, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 6, 2004 | 9/6/2004 | See Source »

...started looking at photographs late at night before going to sleep because I wanted to learn about photography and absorb the information that can be uniquely documented in a picture. This way of learning by contemplating photographs, just as Nachtwey did with Cartier-Bresson's pictures, continues. Petra von Schenck Wiesbaden, Germany Al-Qaeda in America I was disappointed to see that time gave so much coverage to al-Qaeda's latest "threat" to the U.S. [Aug. 16]. It seems as though every time the government hiccups, the media jump in to play on America's paranoia about another terrorist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 9/5/2004 | See Source »

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