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In the Himalayan resort town of Nathiagali, a party is under way. Ice clinks in tumblers and corks pop while the conversation - an amalgam of English and Urdu that is the mark of Pakistan's élite - flows from meditation techniques to a heated debate over a U.S. politician's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Pakistan Failed Itself | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

So guess what? Now marking its silver anniversary (the company was founded by Montreal street performers in 1984), Cirque has done a show like the early ones. Kooza, from the Sanskrit word for "box," is light on elaborate production values, heavy on old-fashioned circus acts: jugglers, tumblers, contortionists, high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cirque du Soleil's Clowning Kooza | 4/25/2009 | See Source »

Sometimes the tea was bitter. Other times it was cloyingly sweet with condensed milk. But the whispered questions at teahouses across Burma were always delivered the same way. Head flick to the right, head flick to the left. A nervous glance backward. No one listening, not even the waiter shuffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Burma, Even a Sham Election Is a Cause for Hope | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

But circuses know that the show must go on, and they're already taking action. On March 3, Clay testified before the House of Commons' Home Affairs Select Committee about the need to bring embassy workers up to speed on the rules and to rework technicalities. Recently, Clay says, dancers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain's Clown Shortage: Visa Rules Hit the Circus | 3/6/2009 | See Source »

For the past four years, China's Olympic Waterloo has haunted the men's gymnastics squad. Consistent world champions, China's tumblers disintegrated at the Athens games, finishing a shocking fifth, with Japan's gymnasts snatching the gold.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Gymnasts Finally Reign Supreme | 8/12/2008 | See Source »

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