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Another day, another unmasked East German spy. That ho-hum attitude greeted news that Bernd Runge, the head of U.S. magazine publisher Condé Nast's German business, worked for the hated Stasi secret police as a young East German journalist in the 1980s. Last week two German magazines, Focus and Der Spiegel, revealed that Runge, now 43, informed on fellow students and his own family, and spied on Western journalists. What's fascinating is that Germans barely raised an eyebrow, and Runge's American boss said his past has "no relevance." It's a far cry from the 1990s...
...America's own worst encounter with a Mr. Hyde side abroad came in 1969, when a young journalist named Seymour Hersh first broke a story about the massacre of scores of Vietnamese civilians at the village of My Lai. The remedy at the time was to blame it all on Lt. William Calley, an officer in charge on the day. My Lai may simply have been a symptom, however, of a war in which American forces were ranged not only against communist insurgents, but against a substantial proportion of the civilian population who supported them. My Lai was hardly...
...place better known for its burgeoning AIDS problem. Yet when thousands of people tried attending the buddha's dedication ceremony last year, police shooed them away. And when the Henan Economic Experiment newspaper mentioned the statue in March, the edition was yanked from newsstands by provincial officials. The journalist who wrote the story was fired the following day, along with his editor. To date, no other mention of the buddha has appeared in the mainland press. The attraction is now closed to the public; tour buses with potential visitors are turned back by harried guards...
...together the magazine each week is such a collaborative process. Some of us involved in the "Portrait of a Platoon" project gathered for lunch on the afternoon of the Overseas Press Club awards to toast the winners and talk about what an extraordinary time it is to be a journalist. Looking around the room that day, I felt grateful for getting to work with so many talented colleagues--and for having so many readers who appreciate their work...
...Thomas-Graham’s caricatures of Princeton socialites are priceless, but one wonders whether the author has adopted her subjects’ name-dropping tendencies. The acknowledgments at the beginning of the book include shout-outs to Jack Welch, the former General Electric CEO; Tina Brown, the celebrity journalist who edited The New Yorker; Vernon Jordan, a trusted adviser to President Clinton; and—of course—University President Lawrence H. Summers...