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- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 8
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- As athletes from 64 nations gather in Albertville, France,
- next week for the 16th Winter Olympics, TIME's staff will begin a
- transatlantic, marathon effort to cover the Games. This week's
- special 15-page preview, coordinated by Jose M. Ferrer III,
- assistant managing editor of TIME's International editions, will
- be the first of four special sections on the competition.
- "There's a magical quality to the Winter Games, a sense that
- they retain the original Olympic ideal," says Ferrer. "Our job
- will be to portray the human stories behind the global Games."
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- Joe has always shown a gift for finding the personal angle
- of a news story. (And, incidentally, he is not related to the
- recently deceased actor Jose Ferrer, but it's a question he's
- got used to over the years.) Since joining TIME in 1963, he has
- written and edited in all sections of the magazine, first
- turning his hand to the Olympics in 1984. Along the way, he has
- also earned a reputation for being a tireless teacher of young
- writers -- and a tireless everything else, for that matter. It
- is a rare closing night that does not find Joe at his computer
- terminal, mulling over some late-breaking story, raising
- questions, smoothing transitions, apparently impervious to the
- late hour. That iron-man constitution should serve him well as
- the leader of TIME's Olympic team. Joining Ferrer for the task
- is senior editor Stephen Koepp, a ski enthusiast on a break from
- his duties in the Business section.
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- This past weekend, as reporter Lawrence Mondi helped
- organize coverage at home, deputy chief of correspondents Paul
- A. Witteman and special-projects associate picture editor
- MaryAnne Golon set up shop in Albertville. Witteman will be
- heading our on-site reporting team, while Golon will sift
- through 7,000 photos daily to send the best back to designer
- Jane Frey. Just before departure, most of our team gathered in
- New York City's Central Park for a last-minute workout. "It's
- not exactly top-level luge, but my only other winter activity
- -- snowball fights -- is not yet recognized as an Olympic
- sport," laughs Ferrer.
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- -- Elizabeth P. Valk
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