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For Mihaesco, the personal cost has been heavy. Ceausescu was enraged at the drawings. In early 1989 Mihaesco's 79-year-old father Nicolae, who lives in Bucharest, was sacked from his job, isolated from his friends and ordered to rein in his "seditious" son. "I'm crushed if you...
This premise promises a grim and lugubrious read. So publishing eyebrows shot up last summer when this novel, Marti Leimbach's first, pulled in some $500,000 in advances, including a movie deal with 20th Century Fox. These are uncommon bucks for a beginning writer. What gives?
Born in Ottawa, Wilde began his career with TIME in 1959 in Indochina. He has since roved from Saigon and Paris to Nairobi and San Francisco, and is currently a senior correspondent based in Rome. One of Wilde's most memorable stories was a 1983 cover on the death penalty...
Over the years -- maybe because he has led so charmed a life -- Wilde has developed a deep interest in religion and has garnered a museum-quality collection of Buddhas and crucifixes. Wilde, says assistant managing editor Richard Duncan, is a "very spiritual man." Duncan recalls that when the correspondent left...
So it is therapeutic to be reminded of the small stories of heroism, brutality and survival that restore dimension to the century's signature satanic event, the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. What is unusual is that in this holiday season, no fewer than three Hollywood films deal with the...