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...NEILL and DIANA WALKER, two veteran photographers, together captured the telling pictures of Greenspan, Rubin and Summers that appear in this week's issue. O'Neill had only 25 minutes to shoot the cover image of the three, who had never before posed together. One of America's premier portraitists, O'Neill composes artistic yet journalistic images that convey a message quickly and clearly, as a cover must. Walker, a TIME photographer since 1979, has captured six White House News Photographer awards for pictures of the First Family. Her ability to gain a subject's trust allows her to capture...
...most despicable thing about Mr. Samaranch and Olympic leaders is that they have enjoyed their extravagant lifestyle behind the facade of the "Olympic movement" and the purity of sport. The reality is that, at the premier level, there is no more purity in sport. Athleticism and competition have taken a back seat to money and entertainment. And someday soon, our beloved institutions of sport may go the way of the ancient Greeks...
...Russian submarine fleet as its key challenge. Moscow, despite its economic woes, is building three new classes of submarines that will challenge the U.S.'s best, say Navy intelligence reports. Other accounts from Russia, though, paint a far bleaker picture. Senator Richard Lugar recently visited Sevmash, Russia's premier submarine yard, and found workers destroying--not building--submarines. "There isn't the money to modernize," says the Indiana Republican, an expert on the Russian military. "There isn't the money for an armed force...
CANADA: Former Nova Scotia premier Gerald Regan was acquitted in December on eight sex-related charges alleged to have occurred as far back as the 1950s. Now he will stand trial for allegedly "indecently assaulting" a baby sitter in the 1960s...
...very hard to turn down. It combines all of my interests--technology, publishing, business within a premier academic environment," Chamberlin said...