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...years ago this week that East German soldiers, equipped with shovels and concrete blocks and barbed wire, began to build the Berlin Wall. It was yet another dark development in the crisis-ridden first summer of John Kennedy's Presidency. There had been the Bay of Pigs in April, then the June summit in Vienna where Soviet boss Nikita Khruschev pounded the table in Kennedy's face and declared that partitioned Berlin was "a bone in my throat" he intended to be rid of soon...
...young Quincy Jones), teamed him with veterans of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington outfits, and he proved he could play with the big boys, winning their respect after initial skepticism. It also showed he could lay his easy, tortured vocal style on such chestnuts as Irving Berlin?s "Alexander?s Ragtime Band" and the Arlen-Mercer "Come Rain or Come Shine." Then he was gone -away from Atlantic, off to ABC Paramount, for the life of an interpretive rather than creative artist. Ray Charles sings country? Well, why not? But not at Atlantic, where Ertegun had to be asking...
...BECKER HAS DONE WELL WITH HIS THREE MERCEDES DEALERSHIPS outside Berlin and by lending his name to AOL, DaimlerChrysler, Völkl rackets and the rtl television network. But his venture online was less successful. The German sports site Sportgate, of which Becker owned 60%, shut down two weeks ago, just three months after launch, with insiders blaming disagreements among the shareholders. In 1999, Becker's stint as Germany's Davis Cup manager also ended in failure, largely because he couldn't get along with one of the country's leading players, Nicolas Kiefer. That same year Becker...
...April promised little in the way of image-polishing, but Becker went to Richmond anyway, attended a workshop, gave a pep talk, borrowed some socks and sneakers and played ball - all before an audience of only 100 people. A month earlier, he had spent two days working in a Berlin program for juvenile delinquents. He still wants to make a difference. "He's taken a beating," says former U.S. track star Edwin Moses, chairman of the World Sports Academy. "But with his strength and character, he'll come back and do some fantastic things...
...English but doesn't speak any German. Datango provided a mentor, an Indian who had graduated from a German university, to help Ajjampur and his other Indian colleagues settle in. They went shopping together and learned such mundane tasks as how to navigate the streetcars that still ply East Berlin. Initially the three Indian programmers shared a furnished apartment. "When I arrived Datango had already arranged a nice, fully furnished place for us," Ajjampur said. "If they hadn't helped us, we would have been in a real mess." Eventually, Ajjampur, who is unmarried, tired of communal living. With...