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DIED. Shiva Naipaul, 40, Trinidadian-born, British-educated author and journalist whose much admired work nonetheless had not brought him the renown of his older brother V.S. Naipaul; of a heart attack; in London. His richly detailed, harshly scornful observations of the turmoil and shortcomings of many Third World nations, contained in half a dozen novels and travelogues, including North of South (1978), Journey to Nowhere (1980) and Love and Death in a Hot Country (1983), reflected his own postcolonial rootlessness and search for identity...
...correspondents, tends to be gruesome, outrageous and, in a brutal sort of way, funny. No doubt it gets slightly funnier when there is a civilian around whose leg can be pulled. Interviewer Mark Baker, however, clearly knows how to nod and outwait the baloney as he plays the journalist's strongest card, which is his knowledge that people have a powerful urge to explain themselves...
...attic. Then word comes: the ex-soldier has been recalled to active duty. In this case he is former Lieut. Ben Tyson, whose company once massacred civilians in a covered-up atrocity bearing more than a coincidental resemblance to the one at My Lai. When an investigative journalist reveals damning new evidence, Tyson is hauled before a court-martial on charges of mass murder. Is he guilty? Will a military tribunal be more vindictive than civilian justice? Can any circumstances mitigate an atrocity? Does a 17-year-old incident still have the power to shock? Indeed it does, and Nelson...
...according to White House aides, he was so moved by it that he has since pushed several of his senior foreign-policy advisers to read it. First published in English in 2001, Aquariums is a coming-of-age tale of almost unimaginable misery. Kang, now a 36-year-old journalist and human-rights activist in Seoul, was incarcerated at age 9 after his wealthy grandfather ran afoul of the regime; in 1977 the family was thrown into Yodok, an isolated work camp for political prisoners, and Kang spent the next 10 years there. His book recalls occasional moments of childhood...
Thanks to such pressure, Beijing has at least started to plan more carefully. Wang Yongchen, a radio journalist who runs the China Rivers Network, an umbrella organization for anti-dam groups, meets frequently with officials at the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) to argue that mandatory environmental impact assessments are often inadequate. SEPA agreed and issued desist orders in January to 30 construction projects. Although construction has restarted on all but four, Wang realized that "we can work with the government...