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Such failures make up only isolated counts of a wider indictment. British journalist Rosemary Righter, whose new book critiquing the U.N. is called Utopia Lost, notes that the planetary problem solver figured as a mere bystander in the climactic upheaval of the past 50 years: the Soviet empire's collapse, Germany's unification and the cold war's end. She says, "This was probably the greatest political challenge of this decade, yet it didn't occur to the Russians or East Europeans or anyone else that the U.N. was relevant...
...speech after dinner, Evans recounted a tale the book dealers found more appetizing: how a struggling journalist and floundering filmmaker wrote his first novel and became an overnight sensation. "I am still bewildered that I have this new career," he said. "If I'd been asked to write a best seller a year ago, I guess I'd have tried a sexy thriller or something. But it doesn't work to think that way. You have to believe in the story; then maybe you really get lucky like...
Evans, 45, grew up in the Worcestershire countryside riding horses, watching TV westerns and reading Jack London novels. He worked as a journalist and a screenwriter, but after a directing deal he had fought hard for fell through, he decided to pursue a book idea that had come to him during a trip to southwestern England. Evans had met a blacksmith who told of a local Gypsy able to tame wild steeds through some mysterious psychic connection. A horse whisperer, they called him. The story, says Evans, "made me shiver...
...moment later, more insistent...Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave." As he lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world and my dilemma (the rage that gave me this blocked heart) to outer catastrophes. I sailed off to Bosnia and Hiroshima--big objective correlatives." Spasms of bloodthirsty fury, he observes, can block up the collective heart of entire ethnic...
Professor Marvin Kalb, a former journalist and the director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, said the creation of the site has "inspired us to get our own Web page...