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World editor Joshua Cooper Ramo came to understand the problems of AIDS in South Africa particularly well in December, when he traveled to KwaZulu-Natal to work in a swamped but heroic AIDS hospice. Working as a volunteer instead of as a journalist gave him an unusually close look at what it was like to live with and die of AIDS. "I'm a big believer that if you see a crime being committed and you don't do something about it, you are as guilty as the criminal," he says. "What's going on in Africa right...
Ukraine's President Leonid Kuchma has been in deep trouble ever since his opposition released tapes purporting to be recordings of the president ordering his interior minister to "get rid" of a critical journalist whose decapitated body was discovered late last year. As pressure mounts on Kuchma to resign, he met Monday with Russia's President Vladimir Putin. Given Kuchma's flirtation with NATO in recent years, Putin's got to be loving this scandal...
...strong are the merits of the opposition claims that they have evidence implicating Kuchma in the killing of a journalist...
...Journalist Peter Lance, who first raised these allegations in his book "The Stingray," likened the potential fallout to the quiz-show scandals of the 1950s. The rigging of shows like "Twenty-One" led to national disillusionment and the establishment of FCC rules forbidding the fixing of competitions. But not only does this not yet look like a Charles Van Doren-scale shocker, I'm not sure whether one is even possible anymore. One reason has to do with the kinds of game shows in prime time nowadays. The other has to do with the people watching them...
Future speakers include CBS executive David Gelber and journalist Charlene Hunter-Gault...