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...multi-platinum. When his version of the classic It Had to Be You--with Connick singing--became a hit, he began moving his repertoire closer toward pop, writing, as he did on 1991's Blue Light, Red Light, jaunty big-band tunes that echoed the pop standards of the 1940s and '50s. He even came out from behind the piano and began strolling around stages in black tie, snapping his fingers, chatting with his audiences and crooning into a microphone. Like Sinatra, Connick became a Hollywood actor, landing small but spicy roles in five pictures, including Memphis Belle and Independence...
WASHINGTON: It's official: The United States can no longer win a nuclear war. At least, not a protracted one. From the late 1940s until yesterday, the Pentagon was technically allowed to bomb the blazes out of any foreign power, take their nukes on the chin, and sit tight in anticipation of victory ? whatever that would mean. But no longer. With a stroke of the pen, President Clinton has eradicated the option of a prolonged thermonuclear exchange from military guidelines...
Accounting for his 1940s tenure as a journalist for Fortune, a publication owned by the right-wing Henry Luce, Galbraith says, "Luce had a choice between conservatives who couldn't write and liberals he couldn't print, so he chose liberals...
...legitimate claim has resulted from the publication of Feliciano's book. Was the looting of French art from Jews and others a terrible aspect of World War II? Indeed. Looting of art has been part of French-German conflict since Napoleon, and it was not any better in the 1940s than it was in the 1800s. But France did its part immediately following the war, and the 2,000 objects that remain in French museums should not be seen as a stain upon France's history, but as a sad testament to the millions of people who lost their lives...
...examine the rhetoric of those who would act as apologists for the Chinese regime. They ask what authority we have to impose our definition of fundamental human rights of the individual upon China? Indeed, in the 1940s, who were we to force our definition of rights of the individual upon Germany? Unless you're a Tibetan (Jew) life is improving in China (Germany). China's culture values the rights of the group--Germany's valued discipline and obedience to the dictates of the state. The parallel is obvious...