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...With reporting by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles and William Tynan/New York
...ROBERT WILLIAM GOTTIER No party, California Resume: Inventor (51 inventions, no patents) Relevant experience: "I have lived long" Platform: Term limits, campaign-finance reform...
This is an album about loss: the passing of heroes, the withering of beauty, the end of an age--one song is titled Elegy for William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Despite the subject, the mood is never dour. Nearly every track has the liquid warmth of a freshly shed tear. This 28-year-old pianist is a wonder at weaving together musical traditions. On his last album, playing in a trio, he performed a moving jazz rendition of a song by the art-rock group Radiohead; on this CD, playing solo, he smoothly merges jazz improvisation with classical piano...
...what may be a decisive parliamentary election next year, hard-liners may be tempted to provoke chaos in order to scare voters away from reform, or to justify a further tightening of authoritarian social control. "Provoking confrontation could cut the ground out from under Khatami," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "But it?s a risky course, because it could eventually leave the hard-liners facing a unified rebellion from the population." Monday?s protests went ahead despite an order by Tehran?s National Security Council forbidding demonstrations without official permission. And as much as Khatami can see the danger...
...arrest of so many suspects reflects excellent police work and intelligence operations," says TIME correspondent William Dowell. "But police work isn?t enough to wipe out terrorism. Even if Bin Laden were to be put out of action, others would try to take his place. This isn?t a movement based simply on a charismatic personality; it?s based on a perception that injustices are being committed against Arabs and Muslims." That perception gives Bin Laden a steady supply of funds and recruits, despite U.S. attempts to put the squeeze on his international network. "To deal effectively with terrorism," says...