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CURRENT AFFAIRS "The Mae Klong is the most beautiful river in Thailand," said Chai, our Burmese guide, as we slid down a gentle series of rapids in our red rubber raft. Transfixed by the multitude of rainbows suspended in a giant curtain of spray tossed up before a fern-dappled cliff, we found it difficult to argue...
...Centre National de la Photographie and a close friend who has worked with Cartier-Bresson since 1952. "I wanted to try to explain the man behind the myth, and how he became who he is, to show the exceptional coherence of everything he's done." The show includes a raft of family-album pictures, memorabilia and snapshots of Cartier-Bresson as a PoW in World War II. "Luckily," says his wife, the photographer Martine Franck, "Henri kept almost everything," to which he adds: "I didn't keep anything. I just didn't throw anything away." The retrospective coincides with...
Even in Turkey, all politics are local. In a major blow to U.S. war planning, a raft of first-term lawmakers broke ranks with their party last weekend to block approval of the deployment of 62,000 U.S. troops to the northern front of a potential war with Iraq. After months of negotiations between the two governments, the vote dealt a serious blow to the Turkish government's efforts to strike a deal with the U.S. "This is a definitive parliamentary decision," Turkey's ambassador to the U.S., Faruk Logoglu, told TIME Saturday. "It's very serious...
...among German, French and Belgian businesspeople that their countries' dovish stance on Iraq could harm trade with America. In Belgium, where diamonds account for 25% of trade with the U.S., the industry has warned of "disturbing" signals from American buyers. In France, cheese dealers report falling sales and a raft of angry messages from U.S. customers. In Germany - where the U.S. is the country's second-largest trading partner, with $56 billion in imports - business groups are launching a war of their own, planning "road shows" and taking out full-page ads in the New York Times. But is this...
...sales growth fell from 4% in October to 1.7% in December. Should consumer spending tank in Britain, though, the government still has one distinct advantage over its euro-zone neighbors - the ability to spend what it likes without running afoul of Brussels. In 2002, Chancellor Gordon Brown unleashed a raft of spending initiatives that will underwrite GDP growth of almost 2% this year. To listen to economists, there are two things that could help lift Europe out of its doldrums. In the short term, there's a war. Not a protracted, recession-inducing war, but a decisive war that comes...