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These are trying days for Iyad Allawi, the interim Iraqi Prime Minister, who faces two threats: the Sunni insurgency in the west and al-Sadr rebellion in the south. He sat down last week in Baghdad for an interview with TIME reporter Christopher Allbritton. Iraqi police officers stood nearby, but signs of U.S. patronage were everywhere. Even the air conditioners bore the label PROPERTY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. Dressed in a natty plaid suit, Allawi was alternately avuncular and forceful...
...obstacles she faces this time are less overtly violent, more subtle, more personal and in some ways more moving and universal. The teen rebellion she embraces--punk haircuts, inappropriate friends and bad boyfriends--is the kind common to adolescents around the world. Satrapi wants her book to cross emotional borders. "If people read the book and can identify," she says, "if they can say, 'That could have been me,' I am extremely delighted. I have done...
...icons of the 1960s go, few are more ubiquitous and less understood than Che Guevara. His name has become a catch-all phrase for rebellion, and his image is on posters, mugs and boxer shorts, but only as the instantly recognizable two-tone portrait taken by Alberto Korda in 1960. In his evolution from Castro's right-hand man to the face that launched a thousand T shirts, Guevara has been frozen in time, always and forever the revolutionary. But most people have little sense of how he got there, or that, once upon a time, he was just...
...Motorcycle Diaries, the first of two movies about Ernesto (Che) Guevara (starring Gael Garcia Bernal, below), opens in the U.S. next month; the second, Che (with Benicio del Toro), will follow next year. They have sparked another batch of commercial tributes to the icon of '60s rebellion...
...That war was just as cruel as WW II. On many days thousands of soldiers lost their lives. Why aren't we creating elaborate new memorials for them? Is it because most of the soldiers involved in that conflict were not Americans? Igor Tyolgovatsor Budapest After the Rebellion "Two faces of china" [June 14] reported how the 1989 protests and their brutal suppression by the government are rapidly fading from the Chinese people's memory. That is too bad. China is still haunted by the ghosts of Tiananmen Square, as the Communist Party continues to ignore the people's best...