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...Elaine Lafferty, who has covered the case since the day after the murders, and Jim Willwerth, who started reporting when the trial began in January. Both have been consumed by the case as it unfolds in the courtroom as well as in the world outside. Senior editor Lee Aitken, who supervises TIME's O.J. coverage, compares the assignment to an overseas posting: "Jim and Elaine have immersed themselves so totally in the language, customs and history of the trial that I'm afraid they're going to suffer culture shock when the case ends...
...transracial" adoptions. "As I read about people who champion the idea that it would be better for children to languish in temporary foster homes than be adopted into families of another race," says Smolowe, "I had to work hard to separate the reporting from my feelings." Senior editor Lee Aitken, whose daughter Sophie, 4, was adopted in Bulgaria, argues that in stories like this, firsthand experience can make for better journalism. "At some point, the adoption ordeal always brings you face-to-face with your most basic values," says Aitken. "You have to be very honest with yourself, and Jill...
...study by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Data in the foundation's sixth annual Kids Count Data Book shows that the number of children growing up without fathers has quadrupled since 1950, when only 6 percent of families did not include a father. TIME Society senior editor Lee Aitken says that although thesocial forcesthat contribute to the number of fatherless families are complex,economic factorshave played a large role. "People have to look at the decline of real wages and the very high unemployment rate among young black and hispanic men." The study notes that from...
...cover story this week focuses on marriage, a subject we have covered often through the years, most recently in a muchdiscussed cover story in August 1994 that looked at its flip side: infidelity. This time the focus is an informal but widespread movement, noted by senior editor Lee Aitken, aimed at shoring up marriage through the counseling of engaged couples and troubled husbands and wives, as well as through efforts to protect the children whom discord places at risk...
...write the story, Aitken turned to our newest senior writer, Elizabeth Gleick, who came to us from PEOPLE magazine (as did Aitken). Gleick, raised in New York City, attended Yale, where she enjoyed editing the Yale Daily News Magazine more than going to classes--though she still graduated magna cum laude in 1985. Back in Manhattan, she found an entry-level job at Vogue. ``I think I worked out because I could type fast and still get lunch every day for five people,'' she says. ``But there was no way I could dress as well as everyone else...