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For a brilliant example of how a story turns multifaceted, poignant, and often dark when the gaze stays steady for a few moments, as the morphing of the Uzbekistan story above from furless funless cartoon into a sad post-Soviet disaster, see this current masterpiece by the Washington Post's Gene Weinberger. As Lileks says, the piece shoud be taught in journalism school, or whatever succeeds journalism school.