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Closer to home, we are bidding farewell to one of TIME's true legends: Jan Simpson. Over the course of her nearly three-decade career at TIME, Jan has held down pretty much every job in every category at the magazine and excelled at each one. Jan came here from the Wall Street Journal in 1979 to be a correspondent in the New York bureau. She was soon posted to Mexico City, where she dropped her bags and disappeared into Nicaragua for a year to cover the Sandinistas and the contras. Upon her return, she hopscotched from World-section writer...
...Years Go By early in his career, Scorsese helped edit two rock docs, Woodstock and Elvis on Tour, which honed the sense of musical and dramatic rhythm that informs all his films and which he could apply with full force to the Stones assignment...
...many, his visage evoked the cackling, maniacal villain Tommy Udo pushing an old woman tied to a wheelchair downstairs, in the 1947 film Kiss of Death. But offscreen, Richard Widmark played the true gentleman. Over his career, the chiseled, unconventionally handsome actor portrayed a vast array of characters--from frontiersman Jim Bowie in The Alamo to the head of a psychiatric institution in Cobweb to the corruptible boxing promoter Harry Fabian, one of his most memorable roles, in Jules Dassin's Night and the City...
...Carne Ross talks about how he resigned from the British Foreign Office in 2004 after Britain's decision to go to war in Iraq proved more than he could abide in a frustrating 15-year diplomatic career, the phone rings. "That'll be Kosovo," Ross says. Probably calling to say thanks...
...helping in its struggle for independence. Then there's Somaliland, which has been independent since 1991 and is taking advice from ID on how to gain international recognition. "You should be engaging with all groups," says Ross, "not just governments sitting in offices and embassies." After a career spent deciding the fates of people who weren't even in the room, Ross gives the voiceless a chance to have their say--before they find more drastic ways to be heard...