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...world's most notorious drug dealers. In the end, we tried to cover as much ground as possible--and to match our subjects with pitch-perfect writers: Oprah Winfrey on Michelle Obama, Ted Turner on T. Boone Pickens (and vice versa), Roger Federer on Tiger Woods, Angelina Jolie on Cambodian activist Somaly Mam. All bring passion and expertise to their portraits. Some, like filmmaker Michael Moore on the aforementioned Madoff, bring a note of polemics...
...afterward on the huge pillows spread out on the sand at Purple Lounge (at about the midpoint of Serendipity Beach). The town's former main drag, a 10-min. ride northwest of that area, is called Victory Hill. The crowd there comprises mostly older Western men and their young Cambodian companions, which is a little creepy, but we had a nice French dinner...
...Even two long features that are ostensibly about other subjects - rebuilding efforts in Rwanda and the Cambodian trial of a former Khmer Rouge official who became a born-again pastor - are really about the international Purpose Driven work that has helped make Warren so popular. The Cambodia article is a solid work of journalism, and shows how Comrade Duch's religious awakening led him to be the only Khmer Rouge leader on trial who has confessed his crimes, an insight that is missing from virtually all of the mainstream coverage of the trial. But the Rwanda story veers toward hagiography...
...charge of a notorious Khmer Rouge prison camp in the late 1970s, Duch oversaw the systematic mass murder of approximately 15,000 inmates. Now he sits in a Phnom Penh courtroom, watching his own fate unfold. Some might say that the actions of an evil but long-gone Cambodian regime 30 years ago have little bearing on the world of today. But the Khmer Rouge’s brutal genocide, which eliminated about one-fourth of Cambodia’s population, deserves to be prosecuted accordingly. Even though Duch himself cannot possibly account for more than a small fraction...
Read about the genocide's influence on Cambodian graphic artist...