Word: wounded
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...about six weeks last year, the world became one giant megalopolis for photographer Anthony Suau. Assigned to shoot the pictures for this week's cover story on the many problems and opportunities to be found in megacities around the globe, Suau began in Kinshasa, Zaire, and wound up in New York City's South Bronx, by way of Mexico City; Sao Paulo and Curitiba, Brazil; and Tokyo. "I was shotgunning from one city to the next," recalls the 36-year- old native of Peoria, Illinois. "One street in Tokyo just blended into the next one in New York City...
...President wound up 1992 and welcomed 1993 with a kind of 16,600-mile victory tour. The last TV image of his tenure, or so he might have hoped, to stick in people's minds would be the Sunday ceremony in Moscow, where he and President Boris Yeltsin were to sign the most sweeping nuclear-weapons- reduction treaty ever concluded. The accord does not quite justify Yeltsin's description of it as "the document of the century." The collapse of the Soviet Union has greatly reduced the threat of nuclear annihilation, and the prime danger has shifted from missiles raining...
Throughout his years as a child molester, Dodd showed a gift for rebuking the justice system. With each arrest, he passed like a cold breeze through the court system and mental health institutions and wound up back where he had started: hunting children in public parks and devising new schemes to kidnap, mutilate, drown, strangle or suffocate them. Time and again, the courts reduced the charges, suspended the sentence, offered therapy over incarceration. "Each time I entered treatment, I continued to molest children," he told the court. "I liked molesting children and did what I had to do to avoid...
Even basic political matters are left hazy. Before the election of 1864, Lincoln predicted, "I am going to be beaten, and beaten badly." Another fit of depression, or was he in real political trouble? He wound up, of course, winning decisively. Why? No clues here. The documentary spends far more time on melodrama, especially the events leading up to Lincoln's assassination. It's an effort to hype a story that, as The Civil War should have proved, doesn't need...
...French have an itch to colonize. For centuries they explored, exploited and educated on three continents. Now their working tours of Africa, North America and Southeast Asia are over. The reverie fades like a holiday suntan; the legacy lingers like a scar. Why shouldn't that wound, which France inflicted on itself and its colonial subjects, be diagnosed on a big screen? Spurred by conscience, retrospection and, not least, the success of Hollywood movies about the U.S. war in Southeast Asia, French moviemakers are gazing into the rearview mirror of their Vietnam...