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...flipping randomly through the books I do have here, such as a meditation in The Soccer War on how tyranny enforces life-denying silence on its subjects. But what sticks in my mind most is the passage from Another Day of Life containing both a confession of the shortcomings Kapuscinski saw in his own work and an excoriation of those who sent others into the battles he witnessed: "The world contemplates the great spectacle of combat and death, which is difficult for it to imagine in the end, because the image of war is not communicable...
...formed, not easily, over many years with many people. That he was dying was inescapable, though. Pretending otherwise, when he never did, would have been inappropriate. I chose to read from Jean Giono's The Man Who Planted Trees and The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski, the Polish journalist and author who was for decades the sole third-world correspondent for a Polish news agency. As it happened, I read too long from the former and had to forego the latter, which I regret. The passage I'd selected was the first thing I thought of after reading...
...passage, Kapuscinski describes a road trip in East Africa that stalled when the road descended into a massive sinkhole. Cars and trucks had to nose slowly into the chasm then be hauled up the other bank by chain and human hand. Kapuscinski details the setting and the inconvenience, then turns his attention to the men helping the passing vehicles, the women selling drinks or food to waiting drivers, the other little businesses that had sprung up, and the atmosphere of fellowship that had emerged around this abyss...
Referring to the Golden Age of the Latin American caudillo, Ryszard Kapuscinski wrote that "stadiums play a double role: in peacetime they are sports venues; in war they turn into concentration camps." Well, in the future, in the synergistic bliss of the globalized economy, stadiums and arenas will simply turn into malls and food courts. The live event--the game itself--will become, at best, a point-of-purchase display. Already, most people attending a basketball game rarely glance at the live action. They watch the Jumbotron screens cantilevered above the court or the monitors mounted in the arena...
...reporter YURI ZARAKHOVICH followed Yeltsin around the country while Washington correspondent JAMES CARNEY, returning to his old posting in Russia, tracked Zyuganov. Back in Moscow, correspondent SALLY DONNELLY and stringer CONSTANCE RICHARDS filed background reports, picture editor MARK RYKOFF directed a team of 10 photographers and Polish journalist RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI, a longtime Soviet watcher, returned to a much changed Moscow to take the city's pulse. Coordinating operations was Moscow bureau chief JOHN KOHAN, who drew on eight years' experience in Russia to write an essay about whether democracy will ever be possible there...