THE careers of foreign correspondents are defined by certain epochs: the second world war, the cold war, post-colonialism and the Vietnam war, for example. My first stories told of the end of the Salvadorian civil war and the Romanian revolution. But then came the new world order whose defining story was that there was no defining story. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky? The Rwandan genocide? The opening of Eastern Europe? China? The internet? None quite fit the bill.
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