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Apr. 19, 1993: From The Publisher
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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<p> Let's admit it: Journalists can't stop writing. They are
obsessed with the idea that they have something significant to
tell the world. Often what they have to say may be less than
earthshaking. At other times, they can knock your hat off. My
hat is off to four TIME staff members whose obsessions have
produced new books that you will be hearing about in the next
few weeks.
</p>
<p> From Robert Hughes, TIME's tireless art critic, comes
Culture of Complaint (Oxford University Press), a lacerating
study of the decline in American values that will surely raise
amens among many people, as well as hackles among others. The
book is an expanded version of a three-part lecture series that
Hughes gave early last year at the New York Public Library and
subsequently summarized in a TIME cover story, "The Fraying of
America" [Feb. 3, 1992]. Among his complaints: the distortion
of the ideals of multiculturalism, the erosion of the English
language by partisans of the Politically Correct, the decline
of education, the damage to politics and the culture in general
wrought by extremists on both the left and the right. And that's
only Lecture 1.
</p>
<p> The B.C.C.I. affair, about which you have read much in
these pages, is now given full exposure in a riveting book, The
Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of B.C.C.I.
(Random House), by investigative reporter Jonathan Beaty and
senior editor S.C. Gwynne, who were among the first journalists
to seize on the serpentine elements of this global scandal.
After writing nearly a score of penetrating TIME articles, Beaty
and Gwynne took a six-month leave of absence and, working from
750 lbs. of documents and notes, transformed a forbiddingly
complex news story into a dramatic account of one of the most
alarming criminal conspiracies of modern times.
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<p> Among other arcana, much less susceptible to understanding
than the B.C.C.I. scandal, is the question that plagues
cosmologists: How did the universe grow into its present form?
Did it all start with the Big Bang, or the Great Void? The Great
Attractor, or the Great Wall? Science writer Michael D. Lemonick
follows this adventure of discovery in The Light at the Edge of
the Universe (Villard), which will be published next month.
While the answers still elude cosmologists, Lemonick's chronicle
draws us compellingly into these mysteries. Together with his
colleagues, he demonstrates how responsible journalism can
create a Big Bang of its own.
</p>
<p> Elizabeth Valk Long
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