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...PRESS Editing Out Criticism Like canaries in a coal mine, newspaper editors help gauge a nation's political health. When two abruptly left their jobs last week - one in Italy, one in Saudi Arabia - people in each country started holding their breath. Ferruccio De Bortoli cited personal reasons when he stepped down from Corriere della Sera, Italy's newspaper of record. But many detected the hand of Silvio Berlusconi. It was no secret the Prime Minister wanted a change at Corriere, which has exhaustively covered the criminal bribery case against him. There's no direct evidence linking Berlusconi...
...copy of The Ascent of Everest is autographed by George Band, who was the youngest member of the expedition - just 24 in 1953. His parents went to the same church as mine, and my father got his signature when Band gave the congregation a slide show on his exploits in the high mountains. (In 1954 Band and another legendary British climber, Joe Brown, were the first men to summit Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, and technically a much tougher climb than Everest.) Now retired, Band still leads treks in the Himalayas. When I spoke to him last week...
There are many iconic images of the Vietnam War reprinted in Lost over Laos, but only one that made photographer friends of mine wince. It was not Henry Huet's eerie shot of a U.S. paratrooper's corpse being winched up to a medevac helicopter. Nor was it Larry Burrows' celebrated photo of a young soldier weeping for dead colleagues after his first day of bloody combat. No, it was a much simpler photo: of a mangled Leica camera, probably Burrows', unearthed from a Lao hillside where he, Huet and two other legendary combat photographers-Kent Potter and Keisaburo Shimamoto...
...miners were killed in an explosion at a coal mine in the Chinese province of Anhui...
...system or not. Most were. It was about not becoming an asshole. It was, 'Can I still bear seeing myself in the mirror?'" Hrebejk isn't sure that Czechs should have done more to fight the communists who governed them for 40 years. "A Yugoslav classmate of mine once told me, 'You Czechs don't know how to fight for your own thing,'" he says. "Now look at what resulted from fighting for their own thing. Who wants to pass mass graves on his way to vacation [in Yugoslavia]?" After traveling back in time, Hrebejk is ready to tackle...