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...after, they pulled the car over on a lonely road. Palestinian legal sources tell TIME that the policemen then sexually assaulted the youth. In the close-knit West Bank town, the attack was an unheard-of act that scandalized the territory in the same way a murder in American suburbia would shock the community. But the fact that Palestinians have begun attacking one another like this highlights the growing tension between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Gazans, particularly those in the police force, are unpopular in the West Bank. West Bankers say the Gazans take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Palestinians: Torn Apart | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...this can lend itself to the kind of tired potshots against Wasp repressiveness that sometimes marred Beauty, with the open-casket funeral standing in for suburbia's houses made of ticky-tack. The show can be glib, and there are too many one-dimensional peripheral characters, like episode four's Latino gangbangers. But the leads are richly drawn and well cast; theater veteran Hall finds layers within layers in tightly wound David. In the pilot's finest scene, Nathaniel's funeral, Nate makes a self-indulgent show of refusing to sprinkle dirt on the grave from a tidy canister, protesting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Where The Hearse Is | 6/4/2001 | See Source »

While the game is not new, its popularity certainly is. What was once a nerd game is now played by kids from the inner city to outermost suburbia. The U.S. Chess Federation counted 31,167 members age 14 and under in 2000, up from 3,266 members in 1990. So why is chess on the rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: Check Mates | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

...Carpenter Center. The exhibit uses household objects, quotations and photography to give insight into the 1950s, a period that conjures up an ambivalent mixture of nostalgia, disgust and curiosity in the modern viewer. The photographs, which are organized by theme, address topics such as childhood, the teenage years, marriage, suburbia, economic expansion, racist stereotyping and politics...

Author: By Natalia H.J. Naish, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Before the Divorce: When We Liked Ike | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...Little Help From My Friends - Beatles 2. Smiling Face - James Taylor 3. The Way You Look Tonight - Tony Bennett 4. Betcha by Golly Wow - Prince 5. Faith - George Michael 6. Yesterday - Beatles) 7. With or Without You - U2 8. Suburbia - Depeche Mode 9. Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid 10. American Pie - Madonna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All-Time Top Ten: The Readers Give Us an Earful | 7/13/2000 | See Source »

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