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...Museum and Kew Gardens were founded in the 1750s, when Britain bestrode the world. But in a year when a Bollywood-style movie triumphed at the Oscars, when pundits have taken to warning of the West's demise, and the British government has been caught in a cycle of shame over expenses - at just the time India's elections were reminding the world of its vibrant democracy - carping about British cultural imperialism seems a hangover from an earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divine Tradition from Rajasthan | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...foremost for Nicaragua's poor, out of whose ranks he'd risen. When a desperate father appealed for Arguello's help because he couldn't afford the expensive medical treatment to treat his 8-year-old daughter's leukemia, the fighter made the cause his own and tried to shame two Nicaraguan pharmaceutical companies into providing free treatment. When they hesitated, the champ came out swinging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Politics Took Down Nicaragua's Boxing Champ | 7/13/2009 | See Source »

...effort to combat scalpers. On the site on Monday night, the only items available under "Michael Jackson Memorial" were T shirts. Still, organizers admitted they couldn't completely stop the blatant profiteering. "For those who take advantage of this," promoter AEG's CEO Tim Leiweke said last week, "shame on you." (See pictures of Jackson's Neverland Ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: L.A. Gears Up for Star-Studded Michael Jackson Memorial | 7/7/2009 | See Source »

...playlist has grown from 11 features in 2002 to more than 50 this time, and includes movies not just from Japan and China but also Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Tamil state of India. Few of these titles are likely to get a U.S. release, which is a shame, but there's always the Internet. Be a cinema sleuth and track down some of these titles; you'll say Wow, too. (See the All TIME 100 Best Movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Film Fireworks for the Fourth | 7/4/2009 | See Source »

...that a lot of newspapers and TV shows and radio shows are constantly featuring writers. It's part of people's lives. Here it seems like only serious readers are concerned about those things. Books and literature don't seem to be part of the mainstream. Which is a shame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author Carlos Ruiz Zafón | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

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