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...course, others will want to listen to him. Lula was one of the few leaders with whom both U.S. President George W. Bush and Venezuela's Chávez had decent relations. Lula told TIME he has "high expectations" that Obama will turn "a new page" on Latin America and "put aside traditional U.S. insistence on a narrow, one-sided approach that focuses almost exclusively on free trade and the drug war." Like most Latin leaders, Lula wants Obama to lift the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba. And he is keen (he may be disappointed) to see the U.S. throw...
...French-made multimedia documentary Gaza-Sderot: Life in Spite of Everything, moments like this add to the eerie feeling that we are eavesdropping on doomed people. That sense is all the more acute because the audience knows how the story will soon turn out. The documentary was shot by two crews - one in Sderot and one in Gaza - between October and December last year, ending just four days before Israel unleashed on Gaza its fiercest bombing campaign in decades. The attack left an estimated 1,300 Palestinians dead and sent residents in nearby Sderot scrambling into underground shelters...
...policy that continued into World War II. But in 1943, President Roosevelt reversed the ban, believing Americans, unaware of the war's high cost, were becoming complacent. Vietnam, a generation later, was the media's war. Television broadcasts and searing photographs of the wounded and the dead helped turn public opinion against the conflict--of which George H.W. Bush was no doubt mindful. As President, he instituted the latest ban on coffin pictures in 1991, at the beginning of the first Gulf War (two years after TV networks juxtaposed images of him smiling and joking with reporters alongside footage...
Concern for families' privacy aside, pictures of the sacrifices made for a justified war don't make people turn their back on it--just as prohibiting images of an ill-advised conflict cannot guarantee public support. When LIFE published one of the first photos of World War II casualties, its editors asked, "Why print this picture? Is it to hurt people? To be morbid?" Their conclusion: "The reason is that words are never enough...
...these new home-shopping networks put more real estate agents out of business? "The site is open to Realtors and helps them connect motivated sellers," says Daniel Westbrook, CEO of onlinehousetrading.com which now has more than 50,000 frustrated property owners looking to make a swap. "The reason they turn to us at all is they've exhausted all other options...