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Happily, Munich and Paradise Now are a relief from all that competence. The latter, about two would-be suicide bombers, is filled with bumbling and a full range of human responses, including humor, to the absurdity of blowing oneself up for a cause. The bombers are average guys dragooned into...
Sensing the growing emergency, assistant police chief Henry Lux, marching within 20 feet of King, lent his bullhorn to James Lawson. "This is Reverend Lawson speaking!" shouted the voice above the chaos. "I want everybody who's in the march, in the movement, to turn around and go back to...
In its six-year existence, the Gates Foundation has accomplished a fraction of what it aims to do. But already it has helped save at least 700,000 lives in poor countries through its investments in vaccinations. In the U.S., its library project has brought computers and Internet access to...
That question can be posed another way: Why on Earth does Koizumi stubbornly keep doing something so unpopular? He himself has never fully explained his motivations, except to say things such as: "I visit Yasukuni Shrine to pledge to the soldiers who were made to fight and to die that...
It was what happened next, however, that explains why Koizumi is such a fascinating, contradictory figure?and why he is TIME's Asian Newsmaker for 2005. Sure, postal reform was quickly passed into law. And Koizumi quickly announced plans to turn the country's eight remaining state-owned public lenders...