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...Kurd, as every hopeful official set as a necessary step on a path towards true peace? The world waits for a new chapter and history prepares, once again, to turn on a dime. --With reporting by Brian Bennett/Baghdad, Michael Ware/al-Dawr, Phil Zabriskie/Tikrit and John F. Dickerson and Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Saddam's Capture | 12/22/2003 | See Source »

...popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy who is gay, closeted and stricken with AIDS; the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), whom Cohn, by pulling strings, got executed for treason; and an angel (Emma Thompson)--the spiritual avatar of America. When she smashes through the ceiling of Prior's apartment to draft him as an unwilling prophet, all hell breaks loose--or, really, terrifyingly, all heaven does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heaven on Earth | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...like Godzilla vs. King Kong), and the celebrities do not disappoint. In multiple roles, Streep morphs effortlessly from ancient Orthodox rabbi to radical Jewish mom Rosenberg to Joe Pitt's mother Hannah. Only occasionally does Pacino slip into his scenery-chewing hooah mode with the eloquently cynical Cohn. And Thompson's angel is no cherub but a winged Old Testament monster of sexual heat and arrogance who proclaims, "My wrath is as fearsome as my countenance is splendid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heaven on Earth | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...companies similar products that they house in their networks and that the phone companies can in turn offer to their customers. "We're helping to usher in a whole new era of usability in communications that people haven't been able to get to in the past," says Laura Thompson, vice president of corporate marketing at Sylantro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Say Hello to the Next Phone War | 12/8/2003 | See Source »

...record of inefficiency, but also due to its history of allocating money for the regimes in Iran and North Korea. Yet if the aforementioned legislation is approved, Washington will give some $550 million to the U.N. Global Fund. The Administration has even sent Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to lobby African business leaders to support the program (which Thompson now chairs...

Author: By Duncan M. Currie, | Title: In Defense of Bush's AIDS Policy | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

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