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...official photograph of Syrian President Bashar Assad is extremely stern. The photos and murals of his father and predecessor Hafez Assad, still festooned throughout Syria, are leavened by the confident gaze and beneficent smile possible only for a dictator in total control. Bashar, however, stares off into the middle distance, working hard to convey vision and strength but avoiding direct eye contact with his subjects. Indeed, the younger Assad, an ophthalmologist by trade who became heir apparent only when his older brother was killed in an automobile crash, remains something of a mystery to just about everyone. "The question...
TIME won another first-place World Press Photo award last month, this one for Christopher Morris and a portfolio of photographs he took while covering George W. Bush's re-election campaign last year. We're proud of Jim and Chris, but the awards are not so much about TIME as about the power of a photograph, simple and unadorned, to tell a story in ways that words cannot...
...does not, however, act as a device of abject barbarism. Camera phone users feel free to take a photograph wherever and whenever they please. I am forced to consolidate my phone usage to quiet corners with high ceilings; otherwise, the antenna might not fit and I wouldn’t be able to hear. Which is to say, I am a very polite and conscientious cell phone user. I mind my business. Why can?...
Traub’s article in the Times Magazine, which was accompanied by a memorable close-up cover photograph of Summers, carefully addressed the president’s reputation, qualifying the weight of the anecdotal evidence behind it while confirming rumors of his overbearing managerial style through extensive faculty interviews...
...know how they can say that when there are no bodies to examine," Gittins says. The bodies were reclaimed by the families. They came from Latifiyah, an insurgent hot spot where the battalion suffered many of its casualties during its seven months in the country. Gittins says a photograph taken by a Marine appears to show that the two Iraqis died of massive chest wounds...