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...days than most celebrities, who are fully prepared to fend off all attempts to see any side of them but the faces they want you to see. And what is the President if not a celebrity operating at the highest levels of consequence? So one thing TIME's Diana Walker can tell you is that a successful White House photographer is one who is close enough in all senses...
...shakes off the psychological grip of his handlers and his security wedge and his tireless self-awareness and makes some gesture or expression that is not in the fat playbook of official gestures and expressions. At which point the scrupulously prepared, emotionally intrepid photographer--we're talking here about Walker--gets the pleasure of hearing the shutter click like a purse being closed with a pearl inside...
...Walker has strung those pearls together in a new book, Public and Private: Twenty Years Photographing the Presidency (National Geographic/Insight; 200 pages). Most of the photos have appeared in TIME, but some (like the two photos of Clinton on these pages) have never been published before. She knows how to give great men and women their due when 21 guns are saluting. But she also sees them as they appear when Hail to the Chief isn't playing and nobody is looking. Or nobody but her. --By Richard Lacayo
...unaffordable for some of those who want them. And providers have work to do to get the word out. A recent university study of Leicester's Muslim community showed that many respondents did not know about Islamic financial services. "No one really worked closely with that community," says Simon Walker, a sales manager at the West Bromwich Building Society in England's West Midlands, which recently began to offer Shari'a-compliant mortgages. And there are other obstacles. Because the universe of Shari'a-compliant stocks is limited, funds based on this type of investing tend to under-perform...
...think they plan on keeping it around for a long time in the future,” Walker said...