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...Weighing the Risks South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun may have stood firm with plans to dispatch 3,000 Korean soldiers to Iraq, but one of his citizens was murdered after being taken hostage there. From this example, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo learned a lesson [Aug. 9]. Her decision to pull out our peacekeepers from Iraq in order to save a kidnapped Philippine truck driver may have been against the wishes and plans of Washington and other allies, but her actions saved a life. Dionne Lee Esteban Caytiles Quezon City, the Philippines...
...silver medalist Adam Nelson called it, "shot put Nirvana," held in the house of Zeus. With the sun rising over verdant hills, crowds streamed into the ancient grounds of Olympia, 200 miles west of Athens, for the shot put competition. With no stands and no scoreboard, the stadium stood as it had in A.D. 393, when it had last hosted the Games. The shot putters paraded on the field beneath the same archway as did the ancient Olympians. "It was awesome to walk into the stadium," said U.S. competitor John Godina. The shot putters had the 15,000 spectators...
When most people hear about vintage things, they conjure up someone's broken-down clutter or maybe a quaint item of dress. But others, like writer EllynAnne Geisel, find in worn wood, rusty hinges and faded cloth the fingerprints of other lives. As she stood ironing a vintage apron some years ago, Geisel realized it had been carefully made by hand. That sparked a sense of connection to the woman who had cut and stitched the cloth and then ironed the apron dozens of times before...
...Athens games got under way, the tables told how the world has changed. In the first week of competition, South Korea had won more medals than Italy or Britain, Japan had won more golds than France or Germany, and the amazing and astonishingly young Chinese squad stood second only to the U.S. in total honors. In the year that the Olympics returned to their ancient roots, many of their stars were from the modern world's most dynamic region...
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...