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...Autumn 1962. Eros hit pay dirt with Bert Stern's 18-page photo shoot of Marilyn Monroe, taken six weeks before her death and published six weeks after it. At 36, she looks lined and tired but engaged in her life's work of showing herself to the camera. Her body behind sheer strips of fabric shows the effects of dieting and gravity. Some of the workprints are X'd out -Monroe's nixing of their publication. It was both ghoulish and poignant to see the sex goddess in this post-mortem expos?, while her name was still...
...never underestimate the indefatigable American profit motive. One Houston contractor, Bert Screen, hopes to make his fortune rebuilding New Orleans. He was packing up his Ford pickup last week, rounding up a crew and planning to head east. "In a twisted way, I'm looking forward to it," he says. "I've always felt New Orleans was my second home, so I will help rebuild it, and make a pile of money." The recovery has already begun. --With reporting by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, Jyoti Thottam, Dody Tsiantar and Deirdre van Dyk/New York, Wendy Grossman/ Houston and Douglas Waller/Washington
...officials expect that Adm. Bert Calland, a Navy SEAL, will step down in the same time-frame as Goss, leaving Negroponte and Hayden-likely with White House input-to pick a new deputy CIA director. Negroponte said at the White House that he is "seriously looking at" Stephen Kappes for that post-which would be a signal to the Agency's career workforce that one of their own would be returning to power after protesting Goss early on. The widely respected Kappes was named deputy CIA director for operations, in charge of the spy corps, under Director George Tenet...
...Federal Civil Defense Administration released an educational film called “Duck and Cover.” It featured an animated turtle named Bert, who demonstrated how children should protect themselves in the face of a nuclear attack. The thesis of the movie was something like a “nuclear attack might happen at any moment, so we should all be prepared.” At the same time, videos were made by various military agencies showing the structural impact of nuclear bomb blasts; these movies suggest that ducking and covering would not, in fact, have been...
...been condemned for its terrorist acts by the U.S., Canada and the European Union, and it remains to be seen if terrorists can become legislators. A government controlled by Hamas, with its oft-stated aim of eliminating the state of Israel, does not bode well for the peace process. Bert Raphael Chairman, Canadian Lawyers and Jurists for World Jewry Toronto...