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Legendarily controversial advertising photographer Oliviero Toscani wants us to imagine an archaeologist a thousand years from now digging up an issue of TIME, circa 2007. "Maybe on the cover he'll find a poignant photograph of AIDS in Africa. Then he'll open up the magazine and see a photograph advertising a shiny Mercedes." Through his pistachio green designer glasses, the ad man's ever-twinkling eyes widen. "And then he'll see a big spread on the lost children of Brazil, which is followed by a double-page photograph for Chanel perfume." Knocking his knuckles once on the table...
...shrug off lightly. Indeed, Watson, 79, says he is "mortified" by the imbroglio, and apologizes "unreservedly" for the offending comments, in which he suggested black people are not as smart as whites: he told the Sunday Times' Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe that he is "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa," since "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas testing says not really." Watson also told Hunt-Grubbe, who lived and worked with him as a lab assistant in Long Island a decade ago, that even though he would hope...
...seems more shocked by the statements than James Watson himself. "To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly," Watson said in a statement he issued at the Royal Society Thursday. "That is not what I meant. More importantly from my point of view, there is no scientific basis for such a belief...
...matters not just in business. Rock icon Bono gets high marks for his woomanship in promoting social causes. A surprisingly genial visit in 2000 to the archconservative Senator Jesse Helms, during which Bono communed with the septuagenarian politician, yielded an appropriation of $435 million for debt relief for Africa. It wouldn't have happened, say the authors, had it not been for Bono's on-the-spot ability to switch "to a completely different language," abandoning his fact-laden pitch to talk religion with Helms...
...It’s not that,” Maya said with a dismissive wave of her hand. “Where was her fire? Where was her outrage? This is one seriously messed-up world we’re living in. We’ve got AIDS in Africa, blood for oil in Iraq, and repressed monks in Burma. She didn’t talk about any of that stuff...