Innholdsfortegnelse for September 17, 2018 i Time Magazine International Edition

SIGHTSEEING SUNFISH In August, fishermen in Scotland reported two sightings of sunfish. The gigantic bony fish, the heaviest in the world, normally live in tropical waters but can drift far on ocean currents. BARNSTORMING BOOBY Bird watchers had their feathers ruffled in August when a brown booby landed on Onota Lake in Massachusetts, some 1,500 miles from its native Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean. WAYFARING WHALE In 2006, an 18-ft. bottlenose whale swam up the River Thames in London after apparently venturing far from its home in the North Atlantic. Despite a rescue attempt, it died on the way back to deeper water.…

IN TODAY’S MYANMAR, THE price for uncovering a massacre is apparently seven years. That was the sentence handed down to two Reuters reporters on Sept. 3, for their work covering the deaths of 10 Rohingya Muslims overseen by state security forces. The sentencing of Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo for breaching the country’s official-secrets act came as little surprise to observers. Both men said they had been framed; away from the courtroom, the military even admitted the massacre in question had taken place. But establishing the truth wasn’t really the point. The verdict will have a chilling effect on reporters in Myanmar attempting to hold the state to account for its brutal campaign against the stateless Muslim minority. That it might also pile pressure on Nobel laureate Aung San…

The first win of the NFL season “Colin Kaepernick is a pariah. Colin Kaepernick is a patriot,” writes TIME’s Sean Gregory of the ex-quarterback whose protest movement has led to a lawsuit with the NFL—and now a major role in a Nike ad campaign. Gregory says that despite not throwing a pass in nearly two years, Kaepernick keeps on winning. Where kids learn racism Sociologist Margaret A. Hagerman studied 30 white families for her new book, White Kids. She saw that children learned about race not just from talking with their parents and from the diversity of their schools but also from small things such as when their parents lock the door, who gets invited to cookouts and when guardians roll their eyes. The right to an education University of…

‘IF YOU CAN LEARN SOMETHING, YOU CAN UNLEARN IT ’ Your new book, How Do We Look: The Body, the Divine, and the Question of Civilization, focuses on how art in the ancient world was received. Why did that interest you? When we look at ancient art, there’s always this exclusive concentration on the artist—the great, creative, usually male genius. But works of art have become masterpieces because of the people who have looked at and judged them. If you leave those people out of the story, you get a skewed view of what art is and how it operates. When you consider the people who look at it, then you’ve got everybody: the slaves washing the crockery, the women looking at statues. You can see…

‘Do not appropriate Mollie’s soul in advancing views she believed were profoundly racist.’ ROB TIBBETTS, father of Mollie Tibbetts, in a Des Moines Register op-ed, after Donald Trump Jr. blamed “the left’s love for open borders” for the 20-year-old’s murder, allegedly by a farmworker from Mexico ‘There is rape because there are rapists, not because there are pretty girls.’ LENI ROBREDO, Vice President of the Philippines, denouncing President Rodrigo Duterte’s remark that rape will exist “as long as there are many beautiful women” ‘THIS IS THE WORST JOB I’VE EVER HAD.’ JOHN KELLY, White House chief of staff, according to Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward’s forthcoming account of the Trump presidency; the White House said the book was “nothing more than fabricated stories” ‘I left because it is more important…

Russian planes bomb Syrian rebel holdout Russia began bombing Syria’s last rebel-held province, Idlib, on Sept. 4, amid preparations by its Syrian army allies to take back the enclave. President Trump warned the day before that a full-scale attack could result in a humanitarian crisis for the 2.9 million people living there; the Kremlin said Idlib was a “cradle of terrorism.” Top gymnastics exec resigns USA Gymnastics president and CEO Kerry Perry is out after only nine months, as the organization continues to struggle since hundreds of women accused sports doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse. The organization has been accused of protecting him and of doing little to change since he was sentenced in January to up to 175 years in prison. Japan hit hard by mega-typhoon Typhoon Jebi,…

DIED Jalaluddin Haqqani, founder of one of Afghanistan’s most powerful militant networks, after an illness, the Afghan Taliban said Sept. 4. NAMED David Katz, 24, as the suspect in the shooting that killed two and wounded 10 at a Jacksonville, Fla., video-game tournament on Aug. 26. The gunman also killed himself. ANNOUNCED The decision not to run for a third term, by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, in a surprise speech on Sept. 4. CEDED Some 1 million sq. ft. in Hong Kong’s West Kowloon rail station to mainland Chinese authorities, during a secretive ceremony, so that China can conduct immigration checks. REACHED The highest fatality rate ever for migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe—even though fewer are crossing than at the crisis’ peak in 2015, per U.N. data. RESCINDED An…

I came to the Senate in 2013, knowing John McCain the legend but not John McCain the man. But he since became my colleague and chair. We traveled together. He taught me a lot. In my first months on the Senate Armed Services Committee, I unknowingly walked into a firefight with him during a hearing. When he didn’t like the tack I was taking in a line of questioning, he interrupted me, and the fight was on. We locked into a back-and-forth, with witnesses, trying to prove our points. Afterward, I was worried that I had offended him—a first-year Senator battling with a Senate lion. But he clapped me on the back, and it was clear he loved it. McCain famously used to say, “A fight not joined is a…

I In a recent viral video, an unidentified white woman in line at a grocery store in Oregon, dressed in a floral romper and black knee-high boots, overheard a black woman’s phone conversation. She believed this black woman was trying to sell food stamps illegally. The exchange became heated, and the white woman was told, in no uncertain terms, to mind her business. “Oh, it is my business,” the white woman responded. “Because I pay my taxes.” She then said something that, quite frankly, stunned me: “We’re going to build this wall.” This was not an oddly timed statement about her views on immigration; it was a declaration of her whiteness and, by extension, her view of who belonged in this country. She might as well have called the black…

‘Any claim that this has been a thorough or transparent process is downright Orwellian.’ SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY, Democrat of Vermont PROVIDING ADVICE AND CONSENT ON SUpreme Court nominations is one of the Senate’s solemn duties. But the start of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings on Sept. 4 was more spectacle than substance. At the outset, all 10 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee carried out a coordinated plan to stall the proceedings, interrupting repeatedly and demanding a postponement. A chorus of protesters stood up and yelled from the back of the room; 70 were arrested on the first day alone. The outbursts on both sides of the dais flowed from the party’s helplessness. Senate Democrats may believe Kavanaugh is unfit for the court, but they appear to be powerless to…

A SCATHING LETTER ATTACKING POPE Francis over claims that he covered up allegations of sexual abuse by a high-profile American Cardinal has brought into focus a crisis in the Catholic Church. The 11-page text by noted conservative Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Francis of covering up sexual-abuse allegations against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, and calls for Francis to resign over the matter. The letter—dated Aug. 22, mere weeks after a damning report from a Pennsylvania grand jury found that at least 300 priests abused more than 1,000 victims—has sown division among leaders of the Catholic Church in the U.S. Francis, who faced a chilly welcome on his late-August trip to Ireland in light of decades of abuse scandals there, now must reckon with high-ranking church figures coming out openly against him.…

IT REMAINS ONE OF THE TOP MEMORIES OF MY CAREER THAT at my audition for Laughter on the 23rd Floor, I elicited belly laughs from Neil Simon himself. And when I got the phone call from my agent that I was going to be in the original Broadway cast of a Neil Simon play—that’s still right up there too, 25 years on. Before then, I’d known “Doc,” who died on Aug. 26 at 91, only as a fan, so the idea that he would be around during rehearsals was intimidating. But I found him to be an almost paternal presence. And there’s a reason his memoir is called Rewrites: he was an absolute genius at using what he saw at rehearsals; it felt as if he were writing for us.…

A CRISIS IS LOOMING in developing economies, or what investors know as emerging markets. An economic crisis in Turkey has pushed inflation to new heights and the value of the lira to new lows. Argentina’s peso is in trouble as President Mauricio Macri reaches to the International Monetary Fund for emergency help. South Africa’s rand, Mexico’s peso and Indonesia’s rupiah are all under pressure. India and Brazil are looking volatile too. The risk of contagion to other emerging markets is real. In part, that’s thanks to investment vehicles that allow investors to buy debt and equities of multiple countries in a single bundle. In some cases, investors—spooked by weakness in one market—sell shares in all of them to reduce risk. It might be tempting to blame President Donald Trump for…

AS A MIDSHIPMAN at the U.S. Naval Academy in the 1970s, I had my first close-up look at John McCain. I was part of a small group privileged to meet with him when he visited Annapolis. We knew about the Hanoi Hilton, of course—but truth be told, we were much more impressed by everything he had gotten away with at the academy. We all knew he graduated at just about the absolute bottom of his class of 899, and we loved how he skated on the edge of expulsion. Clearly the objection to authority was a central organizing feature of his life. No one “went over the wall” (as in, violated curfew) more than Midshipman McCain. No one racked up more demerits. No one dated more women. He was a…

Firsts is an ongoing TIME project that features inspiring women who have broken glass ceilings. For more stories and exclusive videos, go to time.com/firsts Beth Ford First openly gay woman to become CEO of a Fortune 500 company When Beth Ford was in her 30s, working in book publishing in New York City, she took a jog by the river with the woman who would become her wife. Ford knew that many face workplace discrimination for being gay, but when they bumped into her CEO on the street, she took a chance and introduced Jill Schurtz as her partner. She was confident that she could be a leader without hiding her identity. Now, two decades later, Ford is a CEO herself. The 54-year-old mother of three from Iowa was…

ON A STICKY AUGUST NIGHT AT A RESTAUrant near the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, N.Y., the reunited cast, writers and staff of CBS’s Murphy Brown, including Candice Bergen, are gathered for a drink and some food after a taping of the reboot of the iconic 1990s newsroom comedy. The series hasn’t premiered yet, and there’s a kind of wobbly joy in the room. Most of the characters are familiar. Viewers will remember Murphy’s colleagues Corky (Faith Ford) and Frank (Joe Regalbuto) and her producer Miles (Grant Shaud). Then there are new additions like Nik Dodani as the social-media editor dragging the olds into the digital era and Tyne Daly as Phyllis the barkeep—as well as Jake McDorman, who plays Murphy’s now-grown son Avery. But beyond the new characters, there’s…