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...were always thumping, fiddling. They were blunt, ungraceful hands, Kennedy recalled, but strong, so quick. "You're an old country, we're a young country," blurted Khrushchev. "Look across the table," retorted Kennedy, "and you will see that we are not so old." One moment Khrushchev was a battering ram determined to end the irritation of West Berlin, a threatened democratic enclave in the midst of Communist East Germany. The next, he was country cracker. Kennedy's cigar match went wild and landed behind Khrushchev's chair. "Are you trying to set me on fire?" snorted Khrushchev...
...itself. The private lives of politicians and celebrities have traditionally been off-limits for mainstream newspapers and television. In that climate of restraint, India TV's methods were deemed as outrageous as its subject matter. "It's awful journalism," glowers the Hindu newspaper's editor in chief, N. Ram. His Indian Express counterpart, Shekhar Gupta, agrees. "You just can't do this," says Ram. "In India, people's private lives are nobody else's business...
...market in India is changing fast. Since private broadcasters were first allowed in 1991, the number of channels available on TV screens has gone from 1 to 129. Some in the media see cutthroat competition leading the entire industry into bad habits. Says the Hindu's Ram: "Other people are bound to follow. And while we'll fight, it'll be hard. It's an odd situation where we don't report what people are talking about." Media commentator Dilip Cherian agrees: "We've crossed the Rubicon. This is the beginning of the tabloidization of the Indian media...
...Gigabyte hard drive, a 1.5 Gigahertz power-PC G4 processor, and 256 megabytes of Random Access Memory (RAM...
Other thimbles feature images of birds, trees and even the biblical ram; all metaphors characteristic of the distinctively earthy Iron & Wine sound. But perhaps the most powerful image is the perfectly ordinary brass thimble, which contrasts ironically with its showy partners. This is Sam Beam, the humble university professor-cum-indie-rockstar who records under the name Iron & Wine...