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When I attended college, it was India that most powerfully projected what it meant to be under-developed. The specter of suffering emanated from the sub-continent; broadcast by the media, it circled the globe and haunted our homes. While still poor, India now boasts productive agriculture, growing industries, and an expanding middle class. The image of suffering now emanates from Africa...
...situation" has so far met with only a lukewarm response. Western governments, wary of repeating the high-profile failure of the intervention in Somalia, are reluctant to commit foreign troops to a country with minimal strategic or commercial interests--and so far with few TV scenes of horror broadcast to prick the world's conscience. Western officials note, moreover, that the Burundian army and members of the coalition government oppose the idea. Even prominent Hutu moderates, including the country's President, Sylvestre Ntibantunganya, concede that foreign troops "will not solve our problems." Talking to Time from his mansion in Bujumbura...
...Plays Gershwin album won raves when it came out in 1994. For that CD, Wodehouse rerecorded Gershwin's piano-roll performances by playing them on a Yamaha Disklavier, a kind of computer-driven player piano. The Pearl set is based on actual historic recordings--78s, Edison 80s, radio-broadcast acetates. Wodehouse painstakingly tracked them down around the country and cleaned them up for modern ears. "It's a shame that they got lost in the shuffle," says Wodehouse. "But great pop music comes back, and that is what is going to happen here...
...when in fact he was saying privately that his company was "in the nicotine-delivery business." Wigand also accused B&W lawyers of concealing potentially damaging research. The disclosure prompted cbs News to air on Friday part of a 60 Minutes interview with Wigand that it had declined to broadcast earlier for fear of a lawsuit. The full interview will be broadcast this Sunday...
...outlined Tuesday his plans for a new 24-hour television news channel run by Roger Ailes. Murdoch, the former Australian publishing magnate who launched the Fox television network and has a sizeable television presence in Europe, and partner MCI are fresh from winning an FCC bidding war for direct broadcast satellite television rights in the U.S. Ailes, the former media consultant to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Bush, resigned last week as president of NBC's successful cable network. "It's a logical place for Ailes to be," says TIME's Richard Zoglin, "especially if Murdoch is serious about creating what...