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...parts of prisoners and prison guards. Zimbardo originally envisioned a two-week study in which he could closely observe the behavioral changes of otherwise normal people when incarcerated. “If you put good people in a bad place, do the people triumph or does the place corrupt them?” he recalls asking himself. In the important and captivating “The Lucifer Effect,” Zimbardo attempts to answer this question and explore its many disturbing implications. Any attentive psychology student can tell you what happened with the experiment: The situation got ugly very...
...informed and involved throughout the six-month long struggle for control of the airwaves. One of the most famous announcers, “La Doctora,” would broadcast for over 20 hours on tense days. In an area where television was often non-functional and newspapers were corrupt and only available to those who could read, the station exemplified the democratic possibilities of public radio...
...point affirmed at the end of 1999 when he suddenly announced that Vladimir Putin, a former KGB man from Leningrad and Yeltsin's Prime Minister, would take over. In the final, pathetic chapter, Yeltsin evidently agreed to vanish from the political scene as long as Putin didn't pursue corruption cases against him. Putin then undid much of what Yeltsin had accomplished--tolerance (usually) of a free press, for example--and began to mold a Russia that is stronger, surer of itself yet more like the unforgiving Soviet state. Russia is still corrupt, but Putin has rekindled Russians' nostalgia...
...promise soon faded. Yeltsin and his team pushed reforms, and the halls of power were filled with M.B.A.s and Harvard types advising on stock markets and political reform. But nothing worked. A rapid-economic-development plan of "shock therapy" delivered shock but no therapy. Russia got more corrupt. It launched a war in Chechnya. It careened from crisis to crisis...
When David Halberstam and I teamed up in 1963 to cover the Vietnam War--he for the New York Times and I for United Press International--we were too young to have reputations that might help protect us if our work was challenged. The Saigon regime was weak and corrupt, its troops would not fight, and the American advisers we followed into combat confirmed that we were losing the war. Yet we found ourselves under assault from the commanding general and the ambassador, men who insisted that the U.S. and its Saigon ally were winning. They said we were spreading...