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...should you have some air time? It's an editorial decision." But it's not hard to see how Uzan's media serve his broader agenda. Last week, as the battle with Erdogan heated up, Uzan's Star tabloid ran a photograph of the Prime Minister as an earnest young man, sitting at the knee of a bearded Afghan, whom the newspaper identified - wrongly - as a "Taliban terrorist," a picture that Erdogan quickly dismissed as "insignificant." Back in his office, Uzan rolls up his sleeves to display a rash of small scabs he says he received from well-wishers reaching...
...into fun and festivity with unprecedented zeal. Each weekend, central London is one great bacchanal. Cities that for reasons of politics or religion were once gloomily repressive - Madrid, say, or Dublin - now rock to the small hours. In Prague the foreign visitors who get talked about are not the earnest young Americans who flocked there in the early 1990s, but British partygoers who have flown in for the cheap beer and pretty girls. The place that British historian Mark Mazower once called the true dark continent - and from whose curdled soul the horrors of fascism and communism sprang - has become...
True crime isn't really Krakauer's beat--he's the author of Into Thin Air, the bestselling account of a disastrous Everest expedition--but he takes an able, earnest stab at it. It turns out that Ron and Dan weren't just plain crazy. They were members of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, and Krakauer spends much of the book putting their crime in the context of the strange and violent history of the Mormon Church...
Back-to-school time may be weeks away, but the season's surprise on the best-seller lists is a how-to for academic success. Ron Clark, 31, author of The Essential 55 (Hyperion), is an earnest Atlanta-based grade-school teacher who has come up with 55 rules for "discovering the successful student in every child." What magical formula has the educator discovered? His core philosophy is that if you teach basic behavioral lessons first, they will lay the foundation for academic education later. Among his tips for kids: make eye contact when in conversation, meet your deadlines, learn...
What sets these documentaries apart is that they offer something more than talking heads and earnest messages. Documentaries need, Urman says, "the narrative virtues that fiction films have"--story arc, character development, adventure. Winged Migration audiences can somehow identify with those brave, pretty birds beating their way up and down the planet on their migratory paths. And, of course, they can identify with the human subjects of the other docs. But is that really why they're watching...