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...call of duty for TIME foreign correspondents inevitably has its hazards. New Delhi Bureau Chief Marcia Gauger was inside the U.S. embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, in November of last year when it was attacked and burned by an angry mob. She was the only journalist present, and her first-person account of the siege and subsequent rescue became part of a TIME cover story. Nairobi Bureau Chief Jack White was in Kampala for this week's World story on the Uganda elections when he and Photographer Bill Campbell were trapped for two hours at the downtown cable office under...
...much being a lawyer that counts as knowing the law. Any lay person willing to take enough time and buy enough books can eventually learn. But a little knowledge is a dangerous thing...
...Secretary of State must deal with more than 140 countries around the world. He must manage a sprawling 15,000-person bureaucracy. He must justify his policies to a Congress that lately has seemed ever more inclined to put strings on his freedom of action. And he must do all this in a world of instant communications that flash events in far-off nations onto American TV screens as fullblown crises, moments after they occur...
Some observers detect in him a touch of demagogy and personal vanity. One photographer who has followed Walesa notes that he never passes a mirror without stopping to pat his hair into place. In interviews, he sometimes seems flippant to the point of arrogance. In private conversation, he has a marked fondness for first-person pronouns. In public appearances, however, he can exhibit flashes of deep humility. A crowd of miners in Jastrzebie last October asked Walesa who could teach them democracy. His answer: "Who? Not Lesio [a diminutive of Lech], for he is too small, too stupid. Yourselves. Everybody...
Panorama arrived at its conclusion after examining methods used by doctors to determine "brain death." The concept holds that a person is dead when the brain has permanently stopped functioning; the heart and lungs can be kept going by machines. In Britain, doctors must figure out what caused the patient's condition-say, a blow to the head-and then do an extensive series of tests. Among them: shining light into the eyes to see if the pupils contract, spurting ice-cold water into the ears to check whether the eyes react by quivering. In the U.S., physicians also...