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...Cambodia that Gargan's journalistic talents shine. Uncovering the blank spots in the memory of a decimated culture where mothers no longer know how to properly feed their babies, he listens to tales of prisoners who subsisted on five grains of rice a day in Pol Pot's work camps and insightfully wonders how much of the story is being left out?what horrible deeds were committed to avoid being dragged away and bludgeoned to death. Here, unlike in Vietnam, he engages the central question of how survivors continue their lives with such a grisly past literally seeping...
...friend of the former second lady. The woman who seemed to shy away from public life, who was so emblematic of the reluctant political spouse who preferred family dinners to fundraisers, suddenly cut short a California trip to race home to Tennessee and meet with advisors - just like any pol considering...
Clinton spoke millions of words--must he go three for three with quotes that trite? If anyone could right the score, Klein would be the guy. Sure, there was the slippery, glib Southern pol inside Bill Clinton, but there was also the thoughtful, work-till-the-last-dog-dies wunderkind. As the first reporter to swoon over the Governor from Arkansas (no one fell harder, save perhaps the New Yorker's Sidney Blumenthal, who fell so hard he ended up inside the Administration), Klein seemed the most famously disappointed whenever the good Clinton gave way to the bad. Klein expressed...
...Last week they came back with a vengeance. Just as each marauding mob in Gujarat had leadership, almost always a local pol, their inspiration (if not their directives) come right down from people within the party now ruling India. The big question: Which train is Vajpayee pulling? That of a modern India trying to get away from its blood-drenched past - or one heading off in a new and different direction...
...rock star as Bono is?and he has no rival?he has grown even larger over the past three years, molding himself into a shrewd, dedicated political advocate, transforming himself into the most secular of saints, becoming a worldwide symbol of rock-'n'-roll activism. Part poet, part pol, he has taken his cause?solving the financial and health crisis in Africa?and helped put it onto the agenda of the world's most powerful people...