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After Hamas bombers claimed 25 victims in Israel last week, the isolation of Yassin made a good show of a crackdown, but little more. The infirm cleric in his white robes, confined to a wheelchair since a teenage sports accident paralyzed his limbs, speaks in a soprano pitch so soft a listener can barely hear him. But for years his fiery exhortations preaching eternal warfare until Israel is driven into the sea made him the dominant figure in an organization that turned his words into action. Now he is largely a figurehead. He presides over Hamas' sprawling social services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radicals On The Rise | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

Paying for a concert to see an encore seems like the height of luxury. And, when listening to soprano Renee Fleming...

Author: By Christina B. Rosenberger, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fleming and Thibaudet Soar at Symphony Hall | 11/9/2001 | See Source »

...long after Sept. 11, an FBI agent got a call from one of his usual targets, a guy in the Mafia he investigates regularly. The real-life Soprano joked that if the bureau needed help persuading a suspected terrorist to talk, the interrogation experts in the Mob would be happy to oblige...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hitting the Wall | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

Corelli, adapted by Shawn Slovo from Louis de Bernieres' novel, casts Cage as an Italian soldier occupying the Greek island of Cephalonia in the early days of World War II. Since the Italians, as Corelli says, are lovers and not fighters (don't tell Tony Soprano), he and his men spend their time singing Verdi, dancing in the square and making the ladies happy. Apparently only the Nazis took war seriously back then; when Germany takes over the island, atrocity is only a plot twist away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Saga Of Nic The Nice | 8/27/2001 | See Source »

...performing in scab production of The Sound of Music. Fans worry he may tarnish the sterling Brady Bunch name MICHAEL JOHNSON Network of the World chieftain still owes at least $6.2 million to newspaper heiress. His offer to pay in streaming broadband content is rejected ROBERT ILER Teenage "Soprano" arrested for mugging two Manhattan tourists. Somewhere, Corey Feldman is nodding; he understands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

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