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...Mecca this year from virtually everywhere - Bosnia, the Ivory Coast, Michigan - and it feels like the most interesting year to be a Hajji since 1183, when a band of Crusaders tried crashing. It's been a rough year for far-flung Muslims, often minorities in their homelands, with allegiances torn and their faith openly challenged as rarely before. This is a chance to be literally surrounded by religious kin. They may ask you a question in a language you don't understand. But it's not going to be about your beard, your scarf, what the hell's up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Among Many, Many Believers | 3/4/2002 | See Source »

...legislation was sold. "Now we shall realize the reunification of the Hungarian nation across borders," said right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban when he introduced the measure last year. This month he declared that the law will succeed despite those "who want to sprinkle salt on the wound torn open 80 years ago." Slovakia, not surprisingly, bridled at such talk. Earlier this month, its parliament overwhelmingly approved a motion protesting the law's implementation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Empire Strikes Back | 2/18/2002 | See Source »

...they might file suit for that reason alone, even if they never get a dime. And for other families, there is enormous value in no lawsuits at all. David Gordenstein lost his wife, Lisa Fenn Gordenstein, on American Flight 11. "Am I sad? I've had my heart torn out," he says. But he would rather devote his life to raising his two young daughters than pursuing a lawsuit. He will probably file a claim with the federal fund, which he acknowledges is not perfect. "I am proud of what my country tried to do. I think the intention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Is A Life Worth? | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...artists before World War I, Jean Jacques Lebel draws on images of lowlife, but in Parfum Gréve Générale, bonne odeur (1960), pretty girls posing in underwear rub elbows with bloody corpses. Jacques de la Villeglé's Boulevard de la Bastille (1969) uses torn posters from the previous year's near-revolution overlaid with depictions of General de Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: City Lights | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

...honor guard of eight U.S. Olympic athletes, including Harvard hockey standout Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04, carried in the torn and tattered flag that flew from the World Trade Center on the day of the attacks. They were accompanied by New York City firefighters and police officers...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Athlete Opens Olympics | 2/11/2002 | See Source »

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