Innholdsfortegnelse for May 21, 2018 i Time Magazine International Edition

ROYAL REFORM RE “THE AUTOCRAT’S Ascent” [April 16]: This story is highly welcome and timely to diffuse the anxiety and reservation of the puritanical Wahabi Saudi Arabia that the world has been accustomed to over the years. The crown prince, a shrewd choice of the ailing monarch to succeed him, is a breath of fresh air to the young men and women of Saudi Arabia who realize drastic changes for a moderate form of Islam are now just around the corner. He is overdue bringing good fortune to that country and consequently the rest of the world. Long may he reign. Ronen Ghose, GRANGE PARK, ENGLAND RESIST THE NAME GAME RE “WHY ‘LATINX’ HAS SUCceeded Where Other New Labels Have Failed” [April 16]: Political correctness has reached new heights of…

ON MAY 8, PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTER Nikol Pashinyan was appointed interim Prime Minister of Armenia, the tiny Moscow-friendly former Soviet state bordering Turkey, Georgia, Iran and Azerbaijan. Pashinyan, 42, has been praised for staging a peaceful revolution to topple a long-term leader. Now he must grapple with the reality of governing in Russia’s shadow. RABBLE ROUSER Pashinyan first received attention as a student journalist in the 1990s, railing against corruption and an entrenched elite. He later founded and edited the country’s leading opposition newspaper and was briefly imprisoned in 2009 for his involvement in street protests. Pashinyan went on to found his own party, Civil Contract, which was elected to parliament as part of an opposition coalition in 2017. VELVET REVOLT In April, Pashinyan led 10 days of peaceful demonstrations across…

Authorities ordered at least 1,700 residents to evacuate homes near Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano after its crater floor collapsed on April 30, precipitating a series of earthquakes including a 6.9-magnitude temblor on May 4. Magma flow into the lower East Rift Zone has resulted in several lava- and gas-releasing fissures in the Leilani Estates subdivision near Pahoa, where more than two dozen homes—including these, photographed from a helicopter by Bruce Omori on May 6—have been overrun. “So beautiful, yet so destructive,” Omori tells TIME. “If you’ve ever seen a flow move through an area, there’s nothing that can stop it. Absolutely nothing.” ▶ For more of our best photography, visit time.com/lightbox…

As Israel’s Defense Minister in 2012, Barak stoked fears that Israel would strike Iran.The threats led to the sanctions against Tehran that helped force it to negotiate the deal signed in 2015. Barak, who was also the Prime Minister of Israel, is the author of a new memoir, My Country, My Life. Did President Trump do the right thing by pulling out of the Iran deal? I think that the deal was a bad deal. But once it was signed, it was a matter of fact. The Iranians are doing many bad things, but those things are beyond the agreement. Did Israel need a new front right now against Iran? It’s not our new front. It’s a sovereign decision of the American President. Is Trump undoing the results of your…

The men file in, a few wearing pressed button-down shirts, others jeans caked in mud from work on a construction site.They meet in the living room of an old taupe bungalow on a leafy street in a small Southern city. Someone has shoved a workout bike into the corner to make room for a circle of overstuffed chairs dug up at the local Goodwill. The men jockey for a coveted recliner and settle in. They are complaining about co-workers and debating the relative merits of various trucks when a faint beeping interrupts the conversation. One man picks up a throw pillow and tries to muffle the sound of the battery running low on his ankle bracelet, a reminder of why they are all there. Every one of the eight men…

‘We are not coming here to teach Italians how to make coffee.’ HOWARD SCHULTZ, Starbucks CEO, confirming that the chain will open its first Italian location, in Milan, in September ‘Find a different way to annoy them. Preferably by scoring some goals, that way would be the best way.’ BRUCE CASSIDY, Boston Bruins coach, on how he relayed a warning from the NHL to player Brad Marchand, who had been licking opponents’ faces ‘The theme to me is like, Be yourself. You were made in God’s image, right?’ LENA WAITHE, actor and producer, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute gala; this year’s theme dovetailed with the opening of the exhibition “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” ‘THEY FUNNELED THROUGH A LAWFIRM,AND THE PRESIDENT REPAID IT.’ RUDOLPH…

 A WEEK AFTER IT PREMIERED, FEW OF THE EXTRAS WHO appear in Netflix’s first Filipino series had even seen the show. Outside the barbecue stand Nerisa Perez runs in the Manila neighborhood where award-winning director Brillante Mendoza shot Amo (pronounced “am-ohr,” meaning boss), she recalled acting in one scene. A fictional SWAT team raided a nearby shanty, killing her brother, and Perez had to sink to her knees and lament his death. “What did my brother do?” was her line. None of the dozen or so people outside Perez’s stall—some of whom also appear in Amo—had caught their neighbor’s big moment, but their memories of the shoot were vivid. “It felt so real,” one said. “We were afraid.” ‘A lot of Filipinos have been persuaded that there’s no hope for…

‘I want there to be a black Seinfeld, a show about literally nothing.’ WHEN I FIRST STARTED ACTING, I WAS ALWAYS CAST AS THE sassy, asexual black best friend. My peers were shoved into similar, limiting boxes, as there weren’t a lot of opportunities for actors of color. The available roles were oftentimes racist, sexist or woefully underdeveloped. I would read certain scripts and think, You can’t be serious. But if you dared to speak up, you—not the source of the prejudice—would be the problem. Many writers’ rooms were painfully white and male, and if you called out a racist joke, you would be accused of being overly sensitive. The message was clear: Shut up and thank your lucky stars that you have a job. People…

“THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW. Anything else will make you sick. Crazy.” So says Michael Shannon, playing a captain of a brigade of “firemen” in HBO’s new film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451. He shows a group of schoolchildren emojified editions of the Bible, To the Lighthouse and Moby-Dick, text-length communiqués studded with pictorial symbols. Ray Bradbury foresaw a great deal, but he couldn’t have predicted the emoji era. The sci-fi author’s 1953 novel depicts a world in which “firemen” ignite personal libraries so as to keep the population docilely addicted to low-calorie filmed entertainment. Here, the firemen’s exploits play out on social media, with Shannon’s and Michael B. Jordan’s arsonists treated as local heroes on an omnipresent livestream. Shannon bites into the story with trademark relish, but Jordan,…

MOST MEMORABLE JO: LITTLE WOMEN (1933) My Fair Lady director George Cukor’s Little Women—the first screen adaptation with sound—starred a 26-year-old Katharine Hepburn as the plucky Josephine “Jo” March. Hepburn’s lively performance was praised by critics—and by the actor herself. Later in her career, she challenged “anyone to be as good [at playing Jo] as I was.” MOST STAR-STUDDED: LITTLE WOMEN (1994) With Winona Ryder as Jo, Susan Sarandon as Marmee, Claire Danes as Beth, an 11-year-old Kirsten Dunst as Amy and a teenage Christian Bale as love interest Laurie, Australian director Gillian Armstrong’s 1994 film adaptation boasts the most high-profile cast—and three Oscar nominations, to boot. MOST FAITHFUL VERSION: LITTLE WOMEN (1970) Nine 25-minute episodes comprise this relatively low-budget BBC miniseries. Far from the most popular adaptation—viewers were quick…

CHARLIE PUTH HAS SOMETHING TO prove. On his sophomore album Voicenotes, out May 11, the 26-year-old singer is out to set the record straight that he’s neither a one-hit wonder nor an off-the-rack artist. So Puth is growing up and getting real, letting his background in jazz and the influence of slick ’90s funk and R&B shine through. The result is a 13-track pop collection that documents disillusionment and nostalgia alike. It’s retro, bittersweet and undeniable as sonic catnip. Born in New Jersey and educated at the prestigious Berklee College of Music, Puth discovered at a young age that he had perfect pitch. He found modest attention in his late teens with a comedic YouTube channel, but his career really picked up when his song covers were discovered by Ellen…

IT IS ONE OF THE RUBE GOLDBERG RULES of summitry: Jail doors will swing open when diplomats want more room to maneuver. And so three American citizens were freed from North Korean custody on May 9: Kim Dong-Chul, Tony Kim and Kim Hak-Song were led aboard the U.S. government jet of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who on the same stop spent 90 minutes with dictator Kim Jong Un. President Trump later tweeted that Pompeo and Kim had nailed down the date and time that Trump will meet Kim to discuss the future of Pyongyang’s nuclear-weapons program. The visit, held the day after Trump broke off the nuclear deal with Iran, recalled prisoner releases that bracketed that pact. Iran’s freeing of jailed American hikers in 2011 opened the way for…

SITTING IN THE OPEN KITCHEN OF HER New York City apartment, the first-time political candidate snacks on pistachios and talks campaign-finance reform. “In New York, you can’t call out Wall Street, right?” says Cynthia Nixon, who is running for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York. She rises to buzz in a delivery, and on the way to the door continues in campaign mode. “The private prison system is built on debt, right? Without the banks lending them all this money to expand, they would not be able to do what they’re doing. Fundraising is monopolizing everything.” Just before opening her door, she says, “That’s why campaign-finance reform is so important. It’s the mother reform, the reform that makes all the other reforms possible.” She opens the door to…

AT 5:06 P.M. ON MAY 8, MICHAEL AVENATTI, THE UBIQUITOUS lawyer for adult-film star Stormy Daniels, tweeted a bombshell. Avenatti, whose client is suing President Trump, said he had obtained a list of alleged wire transfers dating from October 2016 to January 2018 into and out of a company controlled by Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer. Among the alleged inflows to Essential Consultants LLC: half a million dollars from a firm controlled by an aluminum baron close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and hundreds of thousands of dollars from companies with business before the Trump Administration, including telecom giant AT&T and Swiss pharmaceutical behemoth Novartis. Going out, Avenatti claims: the now famous $130,000 mystery-money payment to Daniels, hundreds of thousands of dollars to Cohen’s own bank accounts and millions of…

John Mulaney, the writer responsible for SNL’s viral Stefon character, has long seemed on the precipice of mega-notoriety—and with his new Netflix special, Kid Gorgeous, he takes a major step forward. He filmed the special at Radio City Music Hall, a capacious stage that he commands, wielding the long cord of his microphone like a lion tamer’s whip. Mulaney has a self-consciously odd manner, telling jokes rooted in linguistic tricks and flights of fancy. A long extended metaphor about the Trump era, and how it resembles a horse having been set loose in a hospital, nears its breaking point but never quite falls apart; better still is an extended recollection of a school assembly, told with remarkable memory of a kid’s view of the world. Netflix has become—among many other…

ON OUR WORST DAYS, WE MAY FEEL like we live in an unjustly repressive world. On our best ones, we marvel at how much freedom we really have. Disobedience—from the astute Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, director of the Oscar-winning A Fantastic Woman— suggests that the truth lies somewhere in between. Rachel Weisz plays Ronit, a successful New York photographer who’s called home to London after the death of her father, a beloved and respected Orthodox rabbi. Ronit has distanced herself from her extended family, and it has in turn disavowed her. When she arrives, she’s met with cool suspicion, though her father’s favorite pupil, Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), practically a family member, tries to show her some kindness. As if Ronit’s jumbled feelings of grief and estrangement aren’t enough, she learns…

 Credit. For small businesses seeking to grow, and consumers striving to improve their lives, the ability to secure loans from banks or financial institutions can be essential. But in many countries, small businesses and consumers are starved for credit. Simply put, most banks are more interested in lending to big business than assessing the reliability of, and risking their capital on small players and individuals. In China, however, one financial technology (fintech) firm has developed a groundbreaking mobile application that is solving this problem –matching millions of small and medium-size businesses, and creditworthy consumers, with financial institutions that want to lend while still being able to maintain high levels of risk management. And it’s all done by mobile phone in a matter of minutes. That company is CredEx Fintech. “CredEx…