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Modeling, Bundchen explained, is acting, which she is doing for the first time in this fall's movie Taxi, in which she plays a bank robber. "Everyone can look beautiful in a picture with the right photographer and lighting. I like a challenge," she says. "I like when someone puts makeup on me that makes me look like I've been destroyed. It's not as far from who I am." Though Bundchen, 23, luckily never quite uses the phrase "to find myself," the woman who is probably one of the highest-paid models ever is reappearing this spring after...
...victory in next year's election to choose Khatami's successor. But even before their boycott, the reformists were bracing for a poor showing in the voting because of widespread public disillusionment over the failure of reform. After plastering his vehicle with pro-Khatami posters three years ago, Tehran taxi driver Arash Khaqani, 27, endured a beating by hard-line thugs. Now, he says, "I wouldn't support anyone's campaign so enthusiastically." In fact, he is not planning to vote...
...which a man wearing an explosives belt leaped onto a Canadian armored vehicle in a crowded Kabul street, killing a soldier and injuring a dozen civilians. The next day, while officials were attending the soldier's funeral, the Taliban struck again. A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-packed taxi into two British army vehicles, killing one soldier, wounding three others and taking the life of an Afghan civilian. A Taliban official, Latif Hakeemi, calling TIME from an undisclosed location, vowed that a wave of suicide attacks will follow. "There is no shortage of volunteers," he said...
...next year's election to choose Khatami's successor. But even before their boycott, the reformists had been bracing for a poor showing in the voting because of widespread public disillusionment over the failure of reform. After plastering his vehicle with pro-Khatami posters three years ago, Tehran taxi driver Arash Khaqani, 27, endured a beating by hard-line thugs. Now, he says, "I wouldn't support anyone's campaign so enthusiastically." In fact, he is not planning to vote at all on Feb. 20. So the reformists' boycott is, in a sense, a strategic withdrawal. "It is better...
...campaigns offer voters a ride to the polls to help draw out support. Frank was the day’s “dispatcher” for the Edwards camp; residents were encouraged to call the campaign office, which would then arrange a ride with a taxi...