Word: visione
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...arms through the bars of the cell and cuffed them so tightly he couldn't move. Then, he says, she poked his eye with her finger so hard he couldn't see afterward. Three months after the incident, Mohammed's left eye was gray and glassy, allowing only modest vision of blurry shapes. He says the guards at Abu Ghraib drank whisky and walked the halls with cans of beer. And he says he saw an American guard having regular sex with an Iraqi woman prisoner on the floor above and across the hall from his cell...
When buyers insisted in 1987 that brides needed sleeves, Aberra stuck to her vision and created a sleeveless organza design that remains a best seller. In 2003, when bridal buyers were resisting color, she created a dress with a pale blue sash that was that year's most popular style. This season Aberra is banking on the "destination" dress, an airy tulle princess-line gown designed for brides who want to get married on a beach...
...losing support among powerful leaders in the Sunni community. In an exclusive interview with TIME's Bobby Ghosh on May 12, Harith al-Dari, Iraq's most influential Sunni cleric and a vocal critic of the U.S., said al-Qaeda has "gone too far." He rejects al-Qaeda's vision of a fundamentalist state, saying, "Iraqis will not accept such a system." At the same time, he said, "Sunnis don't know who to believe or trust. They reject al-Qaeda's idea of the so-called Islamic state, but they don't feel protected by the government...
...solely obedient to earthly powers. In every generation, Christians have wrestled with the questions of whether their efforts are better spent changing laws or changing hearts, and how to proceed when those goals seem to conflict. Falwell practiced the politics of division, flinging damnation at those who resisted his vision of a Godly America. Now a rising generation of Christian leaders is looking to bring people together: the politics of division may be a shrewd electoral strategy but a shallow spiritual one. Their God is bigger than their party, more mysterious, more forgiving and more embracing. It is only partly...
...Hill, critics assailed them as costly, unworkable economy cripplers. His reply: in a few years, when the crisis worsens, these proposals "will seem so minor compared to the things people will be demanding then." And, of course, he's not running for anything these days. He's in the vision business...