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...Granted, Astaire had some pretty good songs to sing. In the 30s, eight of his recordings went to #1 on the pop charts: Cole Porter's "Night and Day," Irving Berlin's "Cheek to Cheek," "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket" and "Change Partners," Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields' "The Way You Look Tonight" and "A Fine Romance," the Gershwins' "They Can't Take That Away from Me" and "Nice Work If You Can Get It." He had 18 other top 10 hits from these composers, and eight more in the top 20. In a genial symbiosis...
...President Bush flew to Berlin for the start of a weeklong diplomatic tour, White House chief of staff Andrew Card briefed the President in his private office aboard Air Force One. But Card wasn't there to prepare Bush for his meetings in Europe. Instead, he presented the President with a 1.5-in.-thick binder of eight policy options for reorganizing the Federal Government to guard against terrorist threats. Included was an idea Bush had resisted for months: the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, the first new Cabinet-level department in more than a decade. Card walked Bush...
DIED. FLORA LEWIS, 79, journalist and author; in Paris. Lewis covered pivotal world events, from the Hungarian uprising in 1956 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, for the Washington Post, International Herald Tribune and the New York Times...
...Taraf de Haïdouks is moving on to the International Istanbul Jazz Festival (July 6). Fanfare Ciocarlia, a Romanian brass ensemble, will play France's Jazz à Vienne Festival (July 13). A few weeks before that, a film about the band entitled Brass on Fire will open at Berlin's Museumsinsel. These won't be staid affairs. "They are phenomenal live entertainment," says Garth Cartwright, a London music journalist and author. Critics point to the virtuosity of bands like Fanfare Ciocarlia, whose musicians can tap 180 beats a minute, to explain their appeal. Others cite the use of traditional...
Half a century ago, Berlin wrote of a widespread reluctance to engage the kind of ideological questions that had resulted in so much bloodshed in previous decades. He saw then what many others observe today—a shift of emphasis away from disagreement about political principles to “disagreements, ultimately technical, about methods,” about achieving the prosperity and security “without which arguments concerned with fundamental principles and the ends of life are felt to be ‘abstract,’ ‘academic,’ and unrelated...