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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- There is something about Presidents and other indigenous
- people that fascinates William Coupon. The photographer for our
- Man of the Year cover has spent years traveling the globe
- capturing images of world leaders, celebrities and members of
- vanishing primitive tribes. His style is well suited to such
- serious subject matter -- intimate pictures using textured
- backgrounds that give his work a painterly quality reminiscent of
- Rembrandt's emotional canvases of the kings and prophets of the
- Bible. "The format is respectful," says Coupon. "Therefore what
- you have is a more revealing portrait of a person."
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- Coupon's ability to work fast was ideal for the harried
- schedule of President-elect Bill Clinton. The photo session
- immediately followed the interview with Clinton by managing
- editor Henry Muller, deputy M.E. John F. Stacks, chief political
- correspondent Michael Kramer and White House correspondent
- Margaret Carlson. After shooting six rolls of film in seven
- minutes, William put down his camera and told Clinton, "I think
- I got it." Unaccustomed to such a fast-working photographer, the
- stunned President-elect responded, "You are the first
- photographer I didn't stop first."
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- The Man of the Year cover stories were edited by senior
- editor Thomas Sancton, who only recently realized he has been
- following the career of Bill Clinton for more than two decades.
- A graduate of Harvard, Sancton headed off to Oxford as a Rhodes
- scholar in 1971, sailing to England three years after Clinton
- made the same journey. After finishing his doctorate, Sancton
- joined TIME's World section in New York City, then headed to
- Paris as a correspondent in 1982. Four years later, Sancton
- returned to New York, where he began editing TIME International.
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- During the campaign this past fall, Sancton headed our
- Nation section as it followed the rise of Arkansas'
- saxophone-playing Governor. Like Clinton, Sancton has a deep
- love of music, having studied the clarinet in his native New
- Orleans with the great George Lewis. "I find it amusing that he
- is a fellow Southern Rhodes scholar who plays a reed
- instrument," he says. Sancton still finds time to cut records
- and jam with the likes of Woody Allen and Doc Cheatham. This
- week Tom once again departs for the City of Light in order to
- take over as Paris bureau chief. "Having worked for TIME on both
- sides of the Atlantic, I find there's little real difference
- between foreign and domestic news -- a good story is a good
- story, and Europe will be full of them." We wish him a good
- tour.
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- Elizabeth P. Valk
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