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Where did you get your haircut? In Berlin...
...issues. They say the best way to strengthen moderate Palestinian leaders is for the U.S. to be clear about what the Palestinians will get if they make peace. Last June, an official involved tells TIME, Qurei and other top officials met quietly with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in Berlin to push for progress toward Palestinian statehood. "They said, 'Why can't we jump to final status talks and start negotiating borders?'" says the official. Rice, according to the official, replied, "We're sitting in Germany. Its borders were settled in 1991, but by then it was a successful, democratic...
...Beethoven." Over the past few years, with his trio mates, Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington (no relation) on drums, Charlap has built on that blueprint in a succession of beguiling and acclaimed CDs on the Blue Note label. Written in the Stars (2000) samples Porter, Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen, among others. Stardust (2003), on which the trio is augmented by such guests as Tony Bennett and guitarist Jim Hall, is all Hoagy Carmichael. The best so far, this year's Somewhere, focuses on the theater songs of Leonard Bernstein...
...father its past is still unclear. But Gaddafi agreed to curtail Libya's nuclear-weapons program as well as pay damages to the families of those killed in the 1988 Pan Am airline bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the non-American survivors of the 1986 bombing of a West Berlin discothèque. As a result, President Bush announced he would begin lifting economic sanctions against Libya. The European Union recently followed. "It was the right decision," says Seif of his father's new Western-friendly stance, "the right initiative...
Behind the savvy design and implementation of the YellowArrow project lies a trio of Columbia grads and their mastermind leader. Christopher Allen, Brian House and Jesse Shapins were good friends during college. Shapins took his degree in urban studies and went to Berlin to start an arts group focused on seeing cities in a new, more perceptive way. House, with a background in computer science and interactive art projects, headed to Sweden for an intermedia graduate program, while Allen set off for Brooklyn to work with Michael Counts and the arts institution called Gale Gates...