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...that the subject is a more-than-reluctant participant. Ever since Capa-whose name survives in the most prestigious prize for combat photographers, the Capa Gold Medal-it has been the mark of a great war photographer that one wonders how he could possibly have gotten close enough to avoid the same fate as his subject...
...brief but insightful introduction, Luc Sante points out that it does feel almost obscene to see hundreds of deaths packaged so elegantly. "Maybe we expect that the photographer faced with grief, trauma or starvation will be rendered incompetent by the sight,'' Sante muses. Nachtwey's work, however, manages to avoid the luridness of a snuff film by being laced with sympathy. There is no doubt in flipping through these photographs that they are taken with the utmost concern for the afflicted, that they are taken, as Nachtwey says in his afterword, as "an appeal to the reader's best instincts...
Although the NCAA opener was a tough game for the Crimson, Northwestern--the fourth-place team in the Big Ten--poses much less of a challenge than the No. 3 Sooners. Harvard will attempt to avoid elimination tomorrow afternoon...
...Freedom Party joined a coalition with the conservative People's Party to form what one columnist called Austria's first "underground government"--referring to the fact that to be sworn in, the new government had to use a secret tunnel joining its offices with the President's residence to avoid facing demonstrators on the square above. The next day, the 14 other member nations of the European Union (EU) downgraded Austria's diplomatic status, the U.S. temporarily called back its ambassador for consultations in Washington and Israel withdrew its entire embassy...
While following in the footsteps of these former millions, the Million Mom March has managed to avoid much of their malaise. In fact, the moms might be the first marchers who can legitimately claim a million marchers; approximately 750,000 on the Washington Mall last Sunday, and hundreds of thousands more participating in similar marches all around the country...