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Levon Helm

As a founding member of the Band and one of the most celebrated rock drummers of the past 50 years, Levon Helm embodied two sets of folk memories in his music. One was of the pop culture of the 1960s. The other was of an older, lost America of dirt farmers, train robbers and Civil ...
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Rambling On: Levon Helm, The Band’s Drummer, Dies at Age 71

One of the most celebrated rock drummers in history, Helm was an icon of Americana music. His concerts held at his barn in Woodstock, New York, let the lucky few into his world.

Xi Jinping - The World's 100 Most Influential People

China's heir apparent
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Patrick Leigh Fermor - Person of the Year 2011

To describe Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died on June 10 at age 96, as a travel writer is like saying Maria Callas could carry a tune. It wasn't just that his books were wise, beautifully observed pieces of nonfiction. It was that writing and travel were only parts of his renown. A linguist, novelist, soldier, ...
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The Enduring Message of Hangzhou - Summer Journey 2011

One glorious fall day last year, I was walking the backstreets of Hangzhou, in Zhejiang province, China, enjoying the sights — fungi as big as cart wheels, tourists posing for snapshots in Song-dynasty costumes — when I saw men hurrying into a quiet, dignified building. It took me a minute to realize that it was ...
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Editor's Desk: An Islamic Odyssey - Summer Journey 2011

Although he did not know it at the time, when a jurist from Tangier named Ibn Battuta left his home in 1325, he was commencing 29 years of travel, visiting everywhere from the Sahara to the China coast. Yet wherever he went, Ibn Battuta found one constant: the shared culture and faith of Islam, which ...
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Patrick Leigh Fermor

To describe Patrick Leigh Fermor, who died on June 10 at age 96, as a travel writer is like saying Maria Callas could carry a tune. It wasn't just that his books were wise, beautifully observed pieces of nonfiction. It was that writing and travel were only parts of his renown. A linguist, novelist, soldier, ...
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More than Manchester

How a football club from England's industrial northwest became the world's biggest sporting organization, thanks in no small part to a canny Scotsman
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Europe's Champions' League Final: Beauty vs. Money

In Saturday's European Champions League Final, the world's two best teams will meet on the field — and fans are emptying their wallets for the privilege of watching it happen
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Appreciation: Seve Ballesteros, Spain's Fallible and Fabulous Golf Hero

The golf great got himself into the kinds of trouble that weekend golfers get into all the time. Then, somehow, he would play the shot that we all dream of hitting but never do. Seve was the man who made our fantasies real
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From Royal Weddings to Royal Funerals: Britain and Its Monarchy Over the Years

No, Britain doesn't have a placid tradition of monarchy but rather a royal history marked by turbulence, celebration and tragedy.
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The Muddle at the Middle of NATO's Libya Efforts

It's time for NATO to decide what it wants to do and how it proposes to get it done
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Jean-Claude Trichet - The 2011 TIME 100

The euro's best friend
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McIlroy's Masters: Why Golf Is the Cruelest Mind Game

As the phenom's heartbreaking collapse at Augusta showed, golf is a psychologically challenging sport subject to unforgiving physics in a chaotic environment
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Humanitarian Intervention: Whom to Protect, Whom to Abandon

It's a noble notion, but humanitarian intervention will never be applied evenly
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