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...fame, would come up and ask for his autograph. Photo editors at the major magazines wanted to meet the new hotshot, dressed in his black jeans and T shirts, with the tribal bracelets and diamond-stud earring, with the war-weary eyes and tales from the front lines of Nelson Mandela's new South Africa. Carter signed with Sygma, a prestigious picture agency representing 200 of the world's best photojournalists. "It can be a very glamorous business," says Sygma's U.S. director, Eliane Laffont. "It's very hard to make it, but Kevin...
First, there was history. Kevin Carter was born in 1960, the year Nelson Mandela's African National Congress was outlawed. Descended from English immigrants, Carter was not part of the Afrikaner mainstream that ruled the country. Indeed, its ideology appalled him. Yet he was caught up in its historic misadventure...
...guidelines would bring some discipline to the currently unregulated field of fertility research. But experiments on embryos raise the same tough question already at the center of the abortion debate: When do life -- and human rights -- begin? "This represents moral terra incognita for us as a society," says James Nelson, an ethicist at the Hastings Center in New York. "We have a huge range of definitions of what an embryo is -- anywhere from a person to just a bunch of tissue like any clump in the body...
Marking his first 100 days in office, South Africa's President Nelson Mandela announced he will set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to uncover the crimes of apartheid and lay to rest a past that "threatens to live with us as a festering sore." The controversial move is fiercely opposed by white right- wing groups...
With the mechanism of the child supported by Majorino's entertaining portrayal, the film might provoke little kids to consider the subject of race. But it ultimately leaves an insincere and unrealistic view for children to consider. If the director Jessie Nelson had made the film either more imaginative and sustained molly's vantage point, or made it more serious, giving it a more realistic ending, then the film would be better. As it is, it sits the fence between imagination and reality, and as a result settles for mediocrity...