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...thieves who plotted to take hostage her and her two sons Brooklyn and Romeo for close to $8 million. The plot was foiled after Scotland Yard was tipped off by the tabloid News of the World, whose reporters had infiltrated the cabal. The thwarted kidnapping allowed tabloid reporters to revert to more fan-friendly matters. First came reports that Victoria had signed a new recording contract in an attempt to restart her solo career. That was followed by news that she was battling Peterborough United, a Second Division soccer club, over rights to her nickname. For 68 years, Peterborough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 18, 2002 | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

...Socialists and other parties of the left must decide whether they can accept the market and reforms or revert to the doctrinaire social democracy of the 1980s," says Alain Duhamel, who co-authored the book in which Jospin spelled out his presidential platform. "If they choose to modernize, they may rally rather quickly. If they opt for antiquity, they'll lose moderate leftists without luring back voters they've already lost." With local, regional and European elections set for 2004, France's leftist parties must decide which direction they'll take if they hope to recover soon. How they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The French Opposition | 9/8/2002 | See Source »

...last year's rout of the Taliban, most enemy fighters were neither killed nor captured; they simply dispersed. Many went back to their villages and signed up with local warlords engaged in longstanding turf battles. Others may have seen the onset of the U.S. offensive as the cue to revert to the guerrilla tactics their fathers had used so effectively against the Soviet invaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civilians Suffer in Afghan Guerilla War | 7/2/2002 | See Source »

...Yasser Arafat call off the terrorists, the two sides could get down to business. But when neither man complied, Bush seemed to give up after a week. When the GOP's right wing unleashed a tide of e-mails and telephone calls in support of Israel, Bush appeared to revert to his instinctive support of the country. And that is pretty much where things stand - back where they started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trapped By His Own Instincts | 4/28/2002 | See Source »

Whatever is behind female bingeing--conformity, crypto-feminism, ennui--it's hardly a feminist act. Gender equality wouldn't be worth fighting for if all it meant was the opportunity to be as stupid and self-destructive as men can be. Not that 21st century feminism is likely to revert to 19th century prohibitionism. Women no longer seek to eliminate all the dangerous and exciting things that men have historically tried to keep for themselves. But they need to appropriate alcohol on their own terms and with their own biochemistry in mind--weighing the harms and the benefits, and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Libation as Liberation? | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

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