Innholdsfortegnelse for Mar 13, 2017 i Time Magazine International Edition

VETERAN WHITE HOUSE REPORTERS WILL BE THE first to say that access is overrated. Covering an ecosystem as complex as the West Wing requires all sorts of sources and skills, and the regular daily briefings, while useful as theater, are sometimes optional as substance. Many correspondents attend only occasionally. But that is by their choice—not the President’s. On Feb. 24, when White House press secretary Sean Spicer excluded reporters from CNN, the New York Times, Politico and others from the day’s scheduled on-the-record briefing, he violated a long-standing principle that those in power don’t get to decide who holds them accountable. TIME correspondent Zeke J. Miller sits on the board of the White House Correspondents’ Association; he and fellow board member Julie Pace of the Associated Press had been negotiating…

Harassment claim at jewelry giant Hundreds of former employees at Sterling Jewelers, the company behind Jared the Galleria of Jewelry and Kay Jewelers, have claimed it “fostered rampant sexual harassment and discrimination” during the late 1990s and 2000s. Sterling has denied the allegations. Samsung top exec’s bribery charge South Korean prosecutors charged Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee with bribery and embezzlement in a widening corruption scandal that has already led parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye. Bangladesh eases child marriage law Bangladesh’s parliament weakened its rule against underage marriage, allowing an exemption in cases of “special circumstances.” Campaigners say the move will legitimize sexual abuse. Uber CEO: Sorry for shouting at driver Uber CEO Travis Kalanick apologized for treating driver Fawzi Kamel disrespectfully, after a video surfaced of Kalanick…

FOR 36 YEARS, BILL PAXTON, WHO DIED FEB. 25 AT AGE 61, WAS ONE of my closest friends. It was a friendship that went far beyond our work together on movies like Terminator, Aliens, Titanic and True Lies. He ultimately acted in over 60 films, as well as many TV movies and series, including his critically acclaimed Big Love. All his characters were aspects of Bill the man: his humor, his decency, his rebellious spirit, his strong moral principles, his sense of the outrageous. Even now, after his long and celebrated career, one of Bill’s most memorable characters remains one of his earliest: Private Hudson in Aliens. His wail “It’s game over, man!” is as funny and human today as it was 31 years ago. The night before the heart…

CIRCUSES AND SIDESHOWS MAY NOT SEEM like obvious places to look for stories of female empowerment, but experts say the performers who appeared in such acts played a surprising and important role in women’s history—in large part thanks to their tattoos. The height of sideshow and circus popularity in the mid–19th century came at a time when women had few opportunities for economic independence, and providing for families was largely a man’s job. Not so for the female sideshow performers, many of whom capitalized on the fascination with body art by voluntarily tattooing themselves, enabling them to make their own money. (Though some were forcibly tattooed.) Ink liberated Victorian-era women outside the circus as well. Wealthy socialites, for example, got tattoos as a form of rebellion. At the time, social…

Trevor Noah wasn’t supposed to be here. Before the 33-year-old South African comedian took over hosting The Daily Show in 2015, the list of obvious successors to Jon Stewart included alumni of the show Samantha Bee, Stephen Colbert and John Oliver as well as Saturday Night Live veterans Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Chris Rock. “It was ridiculous. There was no way I expected to get it,” Noah recalls, sitting in an office above The Daily Show’s studio, now his studio, on the edge of midtown Manhattan. And yet Comedy Central made the risky choice to install a host little known in America but famous around the world in hopes of reaching young people, especially international young people. His debut wasn’t exactly smooth for an audience used to 16 years…

Up to 1.7% of the global population is born with intersex traits—that is, variations in chromosomes, genitals and internal organs that put an individual outside the typical binary of male or female. If that sounds rare to you, consider that it is broadly equivalent to the odds of being born with red hair. For how common being intersex is, however, there’s a shocking lack of public awareness about what it actually means. However, if Hanne Gaby Odiele has her way, the conversation about being intersex will be moving to the forefront. “It’s 2017, we should be able to talk about this,” she said. “We shouldn’t be invisible.” Odiele, a 29-year-old native of Kortrijk, Belgium, has made a name for herself in fashion, walking the runways of New York, London, Paris…

Most people like to physically test a beauty product before they smear it all over their skin. Not necessarily so for customers of the beauty brand Glossier, whose founder Emily Weiss has used social-media marketing to create hype so strong that customers join months-long waiting lists for products they’ve never even tried. “[We’re] the first socially driven beauty brand,” Weiss says. The company grew out of Into the Gloss, a beauty blog that Weiss started in 2010 while working as a fashion assistant at Vogue. She posed a question to readers: What would your ideal face wash be like? Based on the hundreds of responses, Weiss and her team designed the Milky Jelly Face Wash, still Glossier’s No. 1 most repurchased product. Many of their products, from lipsticks to moisturizers,…

FACEBOOK 2004 This granddaddy of social media revolutionized how people around the globe digitally connect. Today some 85% of Facebook’s users are outside North America. INSTAGRAM 2010 Instagram’s emphasis on photography popularized the use of photo filters in social media. The platform has more recently offered video and live-streaming features. TWITTER 2006 Beloved by President Trump, Twitter’s 140-character messages have become a megaphone for breaking news, snarky comments and unfiltered emotional outbursts. SNAPCHAT 2011 Known for its disappearing messages, Snapchat introduced the concept of using a phone’s camera, rather than its keyboard, to share personal ideas. PINTEREST 2010 Particularly popular among women, Pinterest allows users to collect, organize and share photos and other images that they find from around the web. TUMBLR 2007 Tumblr is a breeding ground for viral…

“WHOA,” SAYS MY 4-YEAR-OLD SON INCREDULOUSLY as I scoot onto his bunk bed clutching Nintendo’s new games console, which is called the Switch. We’d been playing The Legend of Zelda on our living-room television, until I tell him it’s time to say good night—then I follow him to his room, Switch in tow. “Are we going to play the new Zelda in my bed?” he squees, same as when we okay room-scale blanket forts or tell him it’s a “stay up late” night. This may be the kind of scenario Nintendo’s designers imagined when they dreamed up the device, a small tablet with attachable buttons and joysticks that can also be plugged into your TV for big-screen gaming. Nintendo is billing the Switch, which will cost $299 when it goes…

‘I became an artist—and thank God I did—because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.’VIOLA DAVIS, accepting the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress and becoming the first black performer to win the triple crown of acting: an Emmy, a Tony and an Oscar. LOVE IT Those who felt that the ceremony was too long at more than 3 ½ hours related to a shot of Chrissy Teigen pretending to sleep on husband John Legend’s shoulder. Indie underdog Moonlight won Best Picture on a paltry $1.5 million budget, becoming the least expensive winner in history (adjusted for inflation). After 21 nominations, sound mixer Kevin O’Connell finally won his first Oscar, for World War II action drama Hacksaw Ridge, breaking the award show’s longest losing…

Inaugural pastor creates ‘safe haven’ The church of evangelical pastor Sam Rodriguez Jr., who led a prayer at President Trump’s Inauguration, has begun offering beds for congregants who need a temporary “safe haven” from immigration raids or domestic violence. The New Season Christian Worship Center in Sacramento said anyone afraid of the potential effects of expanded deportation policies was welcome to stay. “The anxiety in Christian conservative evangelical churches has grown exponentially,” Rodriguez told TIME. Iraq to escape Trump travel ban U.S. officials say Iraq is to be removed from the list of seven majority-Muslim countries whose citizens are temporarily barred from travel to the U.S., following pressure from the Pentagon and State Department over Iraq’s role in fighting ISIS. Attacks on refugees in Germany There were almost 10 attacks…

 A WAVE OF ELECTIONS IS CRASHING ACROSS Europe this year, in the Netherlands, France, Germany and possibly in Italy. But although German Chancellor Angela Merkel may face a tougher re-election fight than expected, the widely held fear that anti-E.U. populists will follow a trail blazed by Brexiters in the U.K. and Trumpists in the U.S. is exaggerated. The widely held fear that anti-E.U. populists will follow a trail blazed by Brexiters and Trumpists is exaggerated On March 15, Dutch voters will kick off this electoral season, and most recent surveys show Geert Wilders and his PVV party running first. Wilders, a longtime lightning rod for left-wing critics, has called Moroccan immigrants “scum” and promises a Brexitstyle referendum for the Netherlands. Yet even if the PVV does come first, Wilders can’t…

Anonymous sources CLAIM “[Journalists] shouldn’t be allowed to use sources unless they use somebody’s name,” President Trump said on Feb. 24 during his CPAC speech. REALITY Three days later, White House aides told reporters to quote but not name the officials who delivered a briefing on Trump’s new budget proposal. Unemployment CLAIM “Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force,” Trump said during his Feb. 28 address to a joint session of Congress. REALITY This statistic is misleading. More than 88 million Americans who did not have a job in 2016 didn’t want one, according to annual average data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That includes large numbers of retirees, stay-at-home parents, students and people who are disabled. Golf CLAIM Trump “played a couple of holes”…

SALOME KARWAH used to joke that Ebola survivors like her had “superpowers,” because after overcoming the disease that racked West Africa in 2014, they were immune from it. Her duty, like that of any superhero, she said, was to use those powers for the betterment of humankind. So after her recovery, the Liberian nursing assistant, who died on Feb. 21 at 28, returned to the treatment center to comfort the sick with her hands-on touch. It was her determination to help when most of the world fled in fear that put her among the Ebola fighters named as TIME’s Person of the Year in 2014. But just because Karwah escaped Ebola didn’t mean she was secure against the failures of Liberia’s shattered medical system. She died from complications in childbirth,…

WESTERN SOCIETY IS OBSESSED WITH a good night’s sleep. To get it, we impose strict prebed rituals and regular wake-up times on ourselves and our children, feeling anxious if we toss and turn in the night. But the idea of a perfect sleep practice is relatively new in human history, Benjamin Reiss explains in his new book Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World. Until the Industrial Revolution, sleep was social, with family and even strangers sharing beds. People slept in installments throughout the day and night instead of in one straight shot, and sleep schedules varied with the seasons according to light and temperature. Parents sometimes eschewed comfortable mattresses for stiff ones, so their children would be able to adjust to sleep in new places when traveling.…

1 INTENSE WORKOUT REGIMENS MAY LOWER MEN’S SEX DRIVES A study in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise found that men who engaged in exercise low in intensity or duration were more likely to have a high libido, while high-intensity or longer workouts were associated with a lower sex drive. 2 HIGH-ACHIEVING STUDENTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO USE POT A study of over 6,000 U.K. teenagers in BMJ Open found that high-achieving students were 50% more likely to use pot occasionally than those who didn’t perform as well academically, and they were almost twice as likely to use it regularly. 3 KINDNESS IS KEY TO A HAPPY MARRIAGE, EVEN IF IT GOES UNRECOGNIZED A study in Emotion found that completing an act of compassion for a spouse—like clearing snow…

When others her age were going to college, Wai Wai Nu was being sent to jail. Like thousands of other pro-democracy advocates in Myanmar, which until recently was ruled by a brutal military junta, she and her family spent years behind bars as prisoners of conscience. When she was freed in 2012, after seven years in prison, she completed her law degree and began working to promote democracy and justice in a country wracked by decades of civil war and deeply divided by religious identity. “After meeting so many [in prison] who were not guilty of crimes, I realized that I wanted to do something that can really change the country’s political and economic system,” she says. She scored an early success with the popular social-media campaign #MyFriend, which encourages…

When Europe’s refugee crisis peaked in the fall of 2015, Sebastian Kurz, Austria’s federal minister for Europe, integration and foreign affairs, found himself on the front lines. Up to 10,000 asylum seekers, mostly from the war zones of Iraq and Syria, were coming into the European Union each day. But Kurz felt ignored when he urged his peers to manage the influx more responsibly. Then only 29 years old, the center-right lawmaker had less than two years of experience as a diplomat. “It was the toughest time in my career,” he says of that period. By the end of 2015, around 90,000 people had sought asylum in Austria, a sixfold increase from previous years, overwhelming the system designed to deal with them. That’s when Kurz went rogue. Against the objections…

THE CAVERNOUS TERMINAL 2 DEPAR- ture hall at Kuala Lumpur International Airport was filled with its usual morning clutter of giddy vacationers and harried businesspeople. Mothers helped children to overpriced bowls of noodle soup, while backpackers clutching dogeared travel guides recalled their beer-soaked evenings. The two young Asian women dissolved seamlessly into this jumble. Nobody paid much attention when they approached a portly male traveler in a pale blue suit, backpack slung over his right shoulder. As he lingered by the check-in kiosks, one woman grabbed the man from behind and the other pressed a small cloth to his face. They tussled for a few seconds, then the women relaxed their grip and melted away—not running, but not dawdling. The man blinked in incomprehension, then rushed to the terminal help…

After a long drought for tech offerings, Snap’s IPO is the nerviest stock-market debut in years, in more ways than one. The parent company of disappearing-message app Snapchat priced its shares at $17 in its IPO on March 1, raising $3.4 billion, valuing Snap at $24 billion. The six-year-old startup, beloved by millennials, is the biggest U.S. tech company to go public since Facebook, which was worth $104 billion at its 2012 IPO. Snap is the first U.S. IPO to exclusively sell nonvoting stock, depriving shareholders of a say in corporate matters entirely. The move is an extreme iteration of Facebook’s lopsided equity structure (which endows founder Mark Zuckerberg with 10 votes for every one that his shareholders get). Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is believed to have clamped down on…

FRENEMIES Vincent van Gogh vs. Paul Gauguin (1888) What: The two painters moved in together before their clashing personalities got out of hand Peak: Van Gogh cut off his ear after a fight See also: Paris Hilton vs. Kim Kardashian (2009); Russell Westbrook vs. Kevin Durant (2016) SIBLING RIVALS Olivia de Havilland vs. Joan Fontaine (1935–2013) What: The sisters competed for roles, lovers and awards Peak: Fontaine beat her sister for an Oscar in 1942—and rejected her attempt to congratulate her on the way to collect it See also: Dear Abby vs. Ann Landers (1956); Stephen Baldwin vs. the rest of the Baldwin brothers (2016) TWITTER FINGERS Taylor Swift vs. Kimye (2009–present) What: Kanye West name-checked Swift with a vulgar lyric; he said she’d approved, but Swift cried foul Peak:…

‘I never approach development thinking about a target audience. My focus is on how I can create something that appeals to as broad a group as possible.’ ‘The fun in games comes when you as the player are using your own creativity to try different things and see what happens.’ ‘After someone has played a game, it’s important that a story lingers in their mind.’…

‘The voters are always right, especially when they ask questions. And the question is, Why isn’t the system improving our lives?’ You said recently that the world is “in a state of confusion” about where power lies. What did you mean? Everyone realizes that the U.S. is not the policeman of the world and doesn’t want to be. So I don’t see the desire to have a unipolar approach. But we don’t have a multipolar order either, because who would you define as being the poles? Is it the United States and Russia, China and India? What about other countries that, by being rich or powerful, can influence international policy? Doesn’t that start to look like a world divided into spheres of influence? I don’t think so, because people have…

‘To hell with dreams! I am done with [them], because this is true.’ BARRY JENKINS, director of Moonlight, accepting the Academy Award for Best Picture on Feb. 26; it is the first film centered on LGBTQ characters to win the honor 1 billion Hours per day that YouTube viewers worldwide spend watching videos—a tenfold increase since 2012, according to company figures 70 Pounds that 83-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg can normally bench-press, according to her personal trainer ‘We are providing a voice to those who have been ignored by our media and silenced by special interests.’ PRESIDENT TRUMP, announcing a new Department of Homeland Security division called Victims of Immigration Crime Engagement (VOICE) in a Joint Address to Congress on Feb. 28 60 Minutes municipal employees in…

ON THE MORNING OF FEB. 24, PHILIPPINE Senator Leila de Lima—one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s most outspoken critics—was arrested in Manila on charges of drug trafficking. Her arrest, which she and her supporters said was an act of political retribution, sparked outrage in the Philippines: LOYAL OPPOSITION De Lima, elected to the Senate last year after serving for five years as the country’s Justice Secretary, has led a months-long, largely political fight against Duterte and his so-called war on drugs, a bloody crackdown on alleged dealers and users by police and vigilante groups that has so far left more than 7,000 dead. Her Senate inquiry into the extrajudicial killings failed to bring them to an end, but her campaign has brought the crisis international attention. BULLY PULPIT In August, the…

ROWING Hamadou Djibo Issaka of the landlocked country of Niger trailed his competitors by 300 m in a men’s singles sculls heat at the 2012 London Olympics, having trained for three months in a fishing boat. He finished to a standing ovation. SWIMMING Eric Moussambani of Equatorial Guinea completed a 100-m freestyle heat in the 2000 Sydney Olympics 43 sec. outside the qualifying time. The swimmer, later nicknamed Eric the Eel, did win hearts. TRACK AND FIELD Trevor Misipeka, a shot putter from American Samoa, was entered in the 100-m sprint at Canada’s 2001 World Championships after a rules mix-up. He finished in 14.28 sec., an impressive pace for the 290-lb. athlete.…

DIED Richard Schickel, TIME’s movie critic from 1972 to 2010, at 84. Schickel wrote 37 books and produced documentaries including the Emmy-nominated Life Goes to the Movies in 1976. ▷ Aileen Hernandez, trailblazing African-American feminist and second president of the National Organization for Women, at 90. ▷ Judge Joseph Wapner, who pre sided over the reality show The People’s Court, at 97. ANNOUNCED A book deal reportedly worth as much as $65 million for Barack and Michelle Obama, with Penguin Random House, after a heated auction. ▷ The opening of Milan Reserve Roastery, Italy’s first Starbucks, in late 2018. Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO, credits a visit to Italy in 1983 as his inspiration for the coffee chain. RECORDED A record temperature of 63.5°F on the Antarctic continent. The reading was…

In a barrio of San Salvador, Mayor Nayib Bukele stands on a renovated soccer pitch defending penalty kicks from a line of kids. Most are approaching the age when many local youths join feared street gangs, known here as maras. But Bukele is encouraging them to shoot balls instead of bullets. “We’re trying to challenge the gangs, not by repression but by competing to get the young people to our side,” says Bukele, 35. In 2015, the year Bukele came to power, El Salvador’s capital city suffered 514 homicides in an area with about 260,000 people, making it 11 times more lethal per head than Chicago. But instead of taking a heavy-handed approach with the gangs, the young mayor is treating the epidemic of violence by building new sports facilities,…

It’s hard to imagine Fleabag, the self-destructive character at the heart of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BBC sitcom of the same name, telling anyone to stay positive and believe in themselves. Yet that’s how the 31-year-old actor and writer says she got to where she is today. “You have to believe that you might be good at what you do, even though everyone else is telling you that you are not.” That resolve paid off. Fleabag began life as a piece of fringe theater about a filthy-minded young woman grappling with the loss of a friend. The BBC gave Waller-Bridge the chance to turn it into a six-part TV show, to enormous critical acclaim, and in 2016, Amazon brought it to the U.S., giving Waller-Bridge a transatlantic recognition that has put her…

SINCE LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE, GEORGE W. Bush has written a memoir of his years in office and a book about his father. His third postpresidential book, out this month, is a departure from anything anyone named Bush—or any other President—has published after leaving office: 192 pages of oil portraits of soldiers, Marines, sailors and airmen who were wounded while serving in wars launched during Bush’s presidency. Accompanying the portraits are stories, also written by Bush, about how each subject dealt with setback and then mounted a recovery. The paths are anything but straightforward, and Bush’s book, in words and pictures, is a challenge and a road map for anyone who faces difficulty. Bush answered some questions about his new avocation: So, painting—where did this come from? As a child…

Kills: 26 (assists) Natalie Portman plays a young orphan taken in by hit man Léon in The Professional (1994). She becomes an apprentice assassin. Kills: 7 In Let the Right One In (2008), Eli (Lina Leandersson) is a vampire who must kill to survive—or for fun, if schoolyard friends are in need. Kills: 41 As wannabe superhero Hit-Girl in Kick-Ass (2010), Chloë Grace Moretz won’t act her age, dropping foul language as well as bodies. Kills: 8 An ex–CIA operative trains his daughter (Saoirse Ronan) to hunt the most dangerous game. Hanna (2011) maims more than murders, but still ...…