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...origin of Kipling's ode is only one of many quaint facts in this rambling, opinionated history of the "special relationship" between Britain and the U.S. An English journalist of hip leftist views, Hitchens was inspired by the question he asked himself one night outside a Los Angeles hotel, where Prince Philip was to bestow the Winston Churchill Award upon Ronald Reagan. Why is it, Hitchens wondered, that Englishness looms so large in the American imagination, particularly among the rich...
...five coasters. After conquering the legendary Cyclone, Woodbury was hooked, and ever since, when his travels allow, he dashes off to an amusement park to try out the local thrill machine. Woodbury figures he has had innumerable rides on some 25 different roller coasters over the years. As a journalist, he chronicled the evolution of the roller coaster for TIME a decade ago. Woodbury found on this trip through the turnstiles that technological advances have made the chills even bigger. "The new rides are faster, meaner and more unpredictable than the old; and the steel, looping coasters that spin riders...
...Harvard has sort of become the center of theChinese dissident community," Sullivan said. Hesaid he believes the article is striking againstleaders of the pro-democracy movement. Studentleader Wuer Kaixi was a visting undergraduate atHarvard last year, and dissident journalist LiuBinyan spent time here as a Nieman Fellow...
...pleased with these tactics, the Rwandan government wanted to displace Fossey and market her research center as a tourist attraction. She dug in. To a journalist planning a visit in 1985 she wrote, "If push comes to shove, I am prepared to fight for my claim." Two days after Christmas, Fossey was hacked to death in her bed. Suspects ranged from vengeful poachers to an American researcher who had proclaimed his innocence and fled the country before a Rwandan court found him guilty in absentia. The judgment is questionable. Harold Hayes does not offer conclusive evidence about who committed...
Both Morrow and Hamad approached the story well briefed. Hamad, who studied law at Damascus University, has worked for Arab newspapers in Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan, and was a free-lance journalist in Jerusalem before joining TIME's bureau there in 1982. Morrow, who is based in New York City, has visited Israel six times in the past 2 1/2 years. He confesses to painfully divided sympathies: "The Israelis and the Palestinians," he says, "are a kind of moral-political double exposure, two universes set down in the same place...