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MARGUERITE MICHAELS, TIME's news director, writes this week on the conflict festering in Congo. "It was a difficult story to end, because there is no end," says Michaels, a former Nairobi bureau chief who has visited Congo often. "I see last week's murder of Americans in Uganda as an indication of the chaos that will continue until Africa reshapes itself." Nevertheless, she adds, "that reshaping of colonial borders will bring about the continent's renaissance...
Book and magazine publishers often follow a hypocritical convention of burying the scoop deep in the text--to signal that they're not really about anything so vulgar and transitory as news. Then they launch a publicity barrage, invariably including a press release written in traditional journalistic "pyramid style"--that is, with the scoop on top, where it belongs. ("ALBRIGHT SAYS CLINTON NEVER TOUCHED HER. In her just published memoir, Woman of the World, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright denies reports in former White House press secretary Mike McCurry's recent memoir, The Soul of Discretion, that President Clinton...
...important ones, by their nature resist perspective. "In a development that experts say could revolutionize our thinking about toast, XYZ News has learned that..." No scoop ever begins, "In a development that may not be any big deal..." Thus what starts out as a quest for the truth often ends up just adding to the world's supply of dishonesty...
...nicely energize with their heedless, youthful intensity. This may not go over with the kid audience, which prefers to view itself onscreen as victims or heroes. But their weary parents may just get a kick out of seeing the little monsters presented as, well, the little monsters they so often...
Children's stories are often tales of desperate travels through far-off lands. In Iranian films, the terrain is typically the child's own hometown. And the potential tragedy can be as simple as being left alone at school, as in Panahi's deliciously devious The Mirror. Or, as in Children of Heaven, the loss of your sister's shoes...