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...DIED. REX T. BARBER, 84, above right, World War II U.S. fighter pilot given partial credit for shooting down the plane carrying Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the strategist of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, in a famed 1943 ambush; in Terrebonne, Oregon. For 28 years the Air Force gave sole credit to pilot Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., above left, but in 1973 Barber was officially recognized. DIED. EDWARD GIEREK, 88, reform-minded communist leader of Poland from 1970-1980 whose attempts to liberalize the economy plunged the country into debt and ignited the discontent that led to the creation...
...classical-music whiz kids are as common as laid-off dotcom executives, but Hilary Hahn is no robotic virtuoso. Her tone is lean and sweet, her interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like...
Mister Rogers is on to something. Listening to Hahn's glowing recording of Samuel Barber's gently poetic Violin Concerto, one has the same feeling of intimacy as if the two of you were having dinner together. Only a very real person--a whole self--can make music that way. Far too many prodigies crash, burn and vanish, but this remarkable young woman seems here to stay...
...Instead, five outsiders briefed the President, among them Michael McFaul, a Democrat and a Russia expert and Rice colleague from Stanford; Tom Graham, a Republican think-tanker; and Felix Rohatyn, the New York investment banker who was Clinton's ambassador to France. The surprising cast included two Brits--Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, and the left-leaning Oxford scholar Timothy Garton Ash. For 2 1/2 hours Bush listened and asked questions. "He hasn't thought a lot about these issues before," says someone who was there, "so he's taking this very seriously...
...health groups hail the decision as a breakthrough; activists hope the federal ruling will signal other employers that inequitable coverage will not stand up to legal scrutiny. (They won?t get any argument from the defendant; after the judgement was announced Bartell?s chief financial officer, Jean Bartell Barber, said she believes Lasnik wanted to make an example of her company...