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...China's officially atheist Communist Party couldn't agree more. As the country tackles the negative side effects of two decades of unfettered economic growth-most notably a growing urban-rural income divide and burgeoning social unrest-Beijing's leaders are looking to soothe the masses by filling a spiritual vacuum left by the demise of Marxist ideology. In landmark comments earlier this month, China's top religious official, Ye Xiaowen, rejected decades of state ambivalence toward religion by telling the state's Xinhua News Agency that "religion is one of the important social forces from which China draws strength...
...Iranian nuclear weapon becomes imminent. However, it is still far from that point, so conditional guarantees against attack are advisable. The United States must be very careful about a war with Iran for a number of reasons. First, given that nuclear facilities are multiple, hidden, and situated near urban centers, they would be all but technically and morally impossible to obliterate. Second, there are the continuing burdens (not to mention the lessons) of Iraq to consider. Third, a war with Iran would completely undermine what is now the Gulf’s best hope for liberal democracy. Iran, though...
...residents - for renovation or reconstruction. To help meet that target, Borloo has boosted new construction rates in all sectors across France from around 50,000 units completed annually over the past decade to over 80,000 now. "When people see monstrosities like these coming down in a really big urban reform, requiring lots of funding and commitment, they say, 'Wow, this is serious,'" Genestier says, pointing to one of central Epinay's monolithic towers. "In Epinay, things are serious." That's true in plenty of other places in France where reform has taken hold. A good job, too; France needs...
DIED. Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, prize-winning South African author and a founder of the antiapartheid movement; in Soweto. Imprisoned in 1977, she was later an advocate for the rights of women and helped launch the Urban Foundation to pressure the government to allow blacks to own homes. With her 1985 autobiography, Call Me Woman, she became the first black writer to win South Africa's prestigious CNA literary prize. In the country's first all-race elections in 1994, the African National Congress member won a seat in Parliament, where she served five years...
Something went gloriously awry when Elia Kazan staged Tennessee Williams' poetic parable of antique Southern illusions colliding with postwar urban brutishness. The young Marlon Brando made Stanley Kowalski a manifesto for sexual menace that defines American acting to this day. The 1951 film version, with Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois, restores equilibrium without neutering Brando--a great play revitalized. It's in a topflight pack of six Williams adaptations that includes chats with surviving co-stars, TIME critic Richard Schickel's Kazan documentary and an early, quirky Brando screen test...