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...cover portrait of the Dalai Lama is courtesy of another name familiar to TIME readers: James Nachtwey. Pairing Pico with Nachtwey, the planet's pre-eminent news photographer, seemed like journalistic Nirvana. The two first worked together in South Korea, 20 years ago. Jim, who has devoted his life to documenting wars and tragedy and famine everywhere from El Salvador to the West Bank to the Sudan, had always told us that if he ever had the chance to photograph the Dalai Lama, he would drop everything and do it. He got the chance and spent five days in March...
...roads. Louis, my instructor, drove with me all the way down to the Bronx in silence. I had never heard him speak, ever, so I took his lack of words as a good sign.“Pull up here and make a right.” That sounded familiar. I pulled up to a red stoplight, with my blinker on, looked to see if anyone was coming, and flawlessly turned right. I tried to peer out of the corner of my eye to see DMV guy’s face. I knew he’d be impressed...
...Angels” force viewers not only to invest their time but also their psychology and emotions in a story about the destructive power of love and loss. Green, noted for works that explore the subtle intricacies of everyday life, doesn’t stray very far from the familiar in “Snow Angels.” His characters emphasize once again the cold reality of human violence, which can even occur in the name of love. Based on Stewart O’Nan’s novel of the same name, the film takes place...
...McMaster’s regiment stayed in Tal Afar for nine months, long enough to build affiliations with the local people. This strategy proved much more successful than basing troops for short stints in cities where neither they nor the local people were familiar with each other. When McMaster’s regiment was designated to leave Tal Afar, the Mayor of Tal Afar wrote a letter requesting that the regiment stay another year. The mayor spoke highly of McMaster and his squadron commander, Lt. Colonel Chris Hickey, whom the mayor said knew the names of his children. These...
...There are a sprinkling of major holidays (Western Christmas is one) that fall each year on the same day of the Gregorian calendar, a fairly standard non-religious system and the one Americans are most familiar with...