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...life and death. In any given issue of TIME, we include, of course, many stories that are driven by news headlines -- this week's account of the I.R.A. cease-fire in Northern Ireland, for example. Other stories, like our cover on the ominous resurgence of infectious diseases, reflect broader trends that we may have been tracking and developing for weeks. Occasionally we go back to a seemingly small event of months ago, briefly noted at the time, that strikes us as ripe with human drama and moral implications, worthy of detailed digging and sober reflection. The suicide of Kevin Carter...
Shostakovich did not seek to achieve much more in the "jazz" medium, even after chinks in the Iron Curtain let the real music flow in. These pieces reflect, more than anything, the excitement of a young composer experimenting with something beguiling, mysterious and rather unknown to himself...
...question Raymond's integrity and sense oftrust," the letter read. "Anyone who wouldpurposefully deceive individuals who wereattempting to help reflect only the finestqualities of our school should be looked at quitecarefully indeed...I felt so moved by thisincident that communication with you wasnecessary...
Good or bad, realistic or fantastic in tone, all these movies reflect a profound unease with the present state of our domestic arrangements. At the end of all of them, their resourceful little heroes are safely clasped to loving bosoms, but in every case the piety seems perfunctory, nowhere near as affecting as the troubles the boys have seen...
...Russia. What really concerns me is that Zhirinovsky meets no ((official)) opposition, nobody opposes him in the legislative branch. I have asked Yeltsin to take a stand against these xenophobic and anti-Semitic statements. I must know where the state stands on this issue. Zhirinovsky's maniacal concepts reflect, in fact, the traditional goal of Russian imperialists to reach the Indian Ocean. As far as they are concerned, we are just some gray mass that happens to be in their way and has no value...