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...tricky business, though the challenge was usually surmounted by soldiers, poker players, bartenders, writers, artists and beautiful women. Nearly a half-century after Capa's untimely death while covering the French colonial war in Indochina - and after four years of dogged research - the British journalist and author Alex Kershaw has also gotten close. In his elegant Capa biography, Blood and Champagne (Macmillan; 298 pages), Kershaw portrays an indisputably brave and talented photographer who could also be reckless, cynical and opportunistic. Much as Capa held his camera only inches from the faces of the grief-stricken and the grievously wounded, Kershaw...
...family cottage at Manali in the Himalayan foothills, his diet retreats when he does--nothing can keep him away from deep fried trout. Says an aide: "He promises to stick to his diet with doubled rigidity once he leaves, but the trout he must have." --By Alex Perry, with reporting by Sankarshan Thakur/New Delhi
...Alex Sowma, 18, is looking for money-making ventures, possibly in real estate, but for now works at a pizza-delivery call center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He has no plans for college. "At the end of four years, I don't want to owe an institution upwards of $50,000 and not have a guaranteed job," he says...
...nearby West Bank town of Jenin and tanks rolled into surrounding neighborhoods. Tanks also destroyed much of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters. NORTHERN IRELAND A Sinn Fein Mayor Elected in Belfast Against Loyalist protests, votes from nonsectarian Alliance Party councilors sealed the election win of Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey as lord mayor of Belfast - the first time the political wing of the I.R.A. has gained control of the city's council. The vote came after days of rioting and shootings that injured five people. Both loyalists and republicans blamed each other for the violence. Ulster Unionist leader David...
...Juniors Alex Fisher, Theo Ludwick and Chris Lin and sophomore two-meter Todd Schulte were just some of the underclassmen who saw significant time in the past two seasons...