Amid the breaking news,the sensational stories and endless reports of graft and corruption, are the accounts of simple folk, the salt of the earth. The people (and fauna) portrayed in our yearly panorama of photographs,famous and infamous,were once newsmakers, some of them briefly. But they are still part of life's drama: a tragedy here, a victory there, year in and year out.Our 'essay' has no particular theme, no chronological order. They are merel