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...three years after Kapuscinski's death at the age of 74, fresh questions have emerged about whether the journalist's works were based more in fiction than in fact, causing a firestorm in Poland, where Kapuscinski is considered a national hero. In a new 600-page biography titled Kapuscinski Non-Fiction, the Polish journalist Artur Domoslawski says Kapuscinski repeatedly crossed the boundary between reporting and fiction writing during his career, claiming to have witnessed events where he hadn't actually been present and inventing images to heighten the dramatic effect of his stories. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Democratic Republic of Congo's first Prime Minister in 1960. He also says Kapuscinski never received an 11th-hour reprieve from a firing squad in Congo in the 1960s and that his father had never been a Soviet prisoner of war, as Kapuscinski had claimed. In addition, Domoslawski, a journalist at Gazeta Wyborcza, Poland's largest paper, claims that Kapuscinski served as a spy for the communists in his travels around the world, noting that it was nearly impossible to leave Poland at that time without signing a cooperation declaration...
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Integrity might sound like a personal virtue, but a new book says it's actually a precious economic asset. In The Economics of Integrity, journalist Anna Bernasek writes that almost every aspect of the modern global economy - from getting cash at an ATM to trading gold in international markets - is possible only because of deep-seated trust. She talked to TIME about the financial crisis, what's wrong with the dictionary definition of integrity, and how trust creates wealth. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...management for several minutes about the company's minuscule dividends and opaque ownership. When he finished, there was a brief silence and then an unexpected burst of applause from a small group of shareholders in the back of the hall. The company directors were visibly flustered, said a Russian journalist present at the meeting. "They clearly weren't accustomed to being asked questions like that," the journalist said on condition of anonymity, citing company policy about speaking to other media. "They looked really uncomfortable...