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...close aides, but said he was "called upon to lead a cleanup of the church." Apportioning Blame RUSSIA The Prosecutor General's office formally charged Muslim Ibragimov, a Chechen native, with "a murder conspired and conducted by a group of people" in connection with the death of Forbes Russia journalist Paul Klebnikov who was gunned down last summer outside his Moscow office. A number of suspects - all from Chechnya - have been detained since September, but Ibragimov is the first to be indicted. Backward, March SYRIA Officials announced the planned redeployment of some of the 14,000 Syrian troops stationed...
...fact, testimony presented in the case alleges that the wiretapping unit was set up at Mitterrand's request and that he selected some of the targets - notably journalist Edwy Plenel, who was ousted as managing editor of Le Monde last November, and Jean-Edern Hallier, a writer who had once threatened to reveal the existence of Mitterrand's daughter Mazarine. A judgment in the case is expected in the coming months. "After all the court has heard, Mitterrand's appearance was disastrous," says Marie-Amélie Lombard-Latune, who covers the trial for the daily Le Figaro. "Here...
...book with facts about your life (studied here, married there) but to produce a narrative, preferably of the gut-wrenching variety (dropped out here, cheated on her there) with which the reader could connect. The literary sensation of 2000 was another memoir by an unknown?this time, an American journalist named Dave Eggers, who hit it big with a recap of his harrowing childhood called A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. All at once, memoir writing became one of those things everybody was doing: celebrities such as Bill Clinton were writing memoirs to show they were just ordinary people...
...much of Continents of Exile, Mehta's prose is so polished that readers skate smoothly upon it?without ever breaking the surface, falling in, and getting lost in his life. What's missing from these memoirs, oddly enough, is evidence of the traits that define him. As a journalist for the New Yorker, Mehta refused to be limited by his blindness; he traveled on assignments with guides who described how things and people looked, and he insisted on going everywhere and "seeing" everything. He wrote essays and books on Oxford philosophy, German theology, Gandhi's fight with his sexuality...
...going to resign, it would have already happened," says longtime Rome-based Jesuit priest Keith Pecklers. "He identifies with the mystery of Christ's suffering." Keeping the world updated last week on the Pope's latest health scare was Joaquín Navarro-Valls. A former psychiatrist and journalist, the 68-year-old Spaniard has been the papal spokesman since 1984 and is in constant contact with the Holy Father. Though some veteran Vatican watchers complain that Navarro-Valls spins the world about the Pope's physical condition - he insisted that John Paul was steadily recovering last week - few believe...