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...water level creeping up. Targets for the broad S&P 500 generally call for a 5-10 percent improvement in 2002 as investors and corporate officers alike see business conditions getting better and better as the year goes on, and the next economic expansion starts to take shape. Sure, it'll be an expansion without a peace dividend, weighed down by defense and security spending and a travel industry that may have suffered permanent damage this year, and constantly in danger from economies in Japan, Europe and Argentina that are still getting worse even as the U.S. one starts...
...began as an afterthought. It evolved into a journalistic tradition. Today it's an American institution with global resonance. TIME's selection of the Person of the Year highlights the powerful personalities who shape our world in ways both creative and destructive. Starting in 1927--when the editors invented the concept to make up for not running a cover story on Charles Lindbergh after his transatlantic flight--the choices have formed a fascinating reflection of history in the making. The public has joined in the process, passionately suggesting candidates and just as passionately debating the selections. Now people can experience...
...lissome and rhythmical curves as the model for Venus on her half-shell and Flora in La Primavera. Vespucci may have looked like that, or she may not. Maybe she was a blond pudge like Pamela Anderson. Getting tumbled in a wave of neo-Platonic fantasizing about how outer shape mirrors inner essence--"For Soule is Forme, and doth the Bodie make," wrote the poet Spenser in 1596--may be great for the figure and complexion when court painters like Botticelli and writers like Marsilio Ficino or Angelo Poliziano are watching, but it's not so good for documentary truth...
...gratifying that President Bush relies on the expertise of his advisers Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes. But in the Middle East, there's little chance for women to shape their destinies. They have had to put up with terror their entire lives in their very homes. Perhaps the war on terrorism will have beneficial results for a long-forgotten, oppressed people: not the men of Islam, but their wives, mothers and sisters. KATHERINE RYAN Manhattan Beach, Calif...
This new interpretation is taking shape in different places at different speeds. Although non-Muslims often view Islam as a monolithic bloc, the religion is characterized by its diversity. With over a billion believers scattered across every continent, as well as separate Shi'ite and Sunni traditions, the Muslim community (or ummah) has long been a philosophical construct rather than a demographic reality. That's true in Europe, where Muslims are divided by country of residence as much as by country of origin. "The problems Muslims are facing here are deeply influenced by the institutions of the countries where they...