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...Berlin was a Jew whose love for America included a love for two gentile women: his wives. First Dorothy Goetz, the sister of songwriter Ray Goetz. Her marriage to Berlin was brief: she died of pneumonia barely five months past her wedding day. The song he wrote to commemorate her, "When I Lost You," became his second #1 hit. (Berlin couldn't help turning grief into greenbacks...
...Scottish castle where Madonna wed), and something was...burning! Actress ASHLEY JUDD (below, at this year's Oscar ceremony), 33, and Edinburgh-born race-car driver DARIO FRANCHITTI, 28, were reportedly 10 minutes into their wedding ceremony when a golf cart used to ferry guests around caught fire. The brief blaze was not the only excitement. Rumors of DeNiro, Paltrow, Douglas and Zeta-Jones cameos proved false, but other Judds sang Love Can Build a Bridge. Inside, fires blazed in their proper places, and the marriage bed was strewn with specially airlifted-in red rose petals--and extra tartan blankies...
...Moussaoui, who made a brief court appearance Wednesday, will be arraigned Jan. 2 in Alexandria, Va. His attorneys did not request bail for him today. He's charged with conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism, aircraft piracy, destruction of aircraft, use of weapons of mass destruction, murder of U.S. employees and destruction of U.S. property...
...brief visit to Poso by Chief Security Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Dec. 5 and a pledge of several thousand more troops did little to reassure Christians. "What is really needed is for the security forces to go in and disarm these outsiders," says S. Pelima, a civil servant and Protestant preacher based in the regional capital of Palu who served on a reconciliation team of community and religious leaders set up by the Governor last year. Since the May 2000 eruption, he says, the team had managed to contain the violence between the two communities to a few killings...
...James was a counterintuitive choice to head STAR. After leaving college, he had shied away from News Corp., founding Rawkus, a record company that specialized in rap-metal bands a few years before Limp Bizkit made millions with the formula. He also had a brief dalliance with cartooning, producing a strip whose antihero "Albrecht the Hun" preferred literary pursuits to raping and pillaging. But James eventually set aside his own artistic impulses and joined the family fold. He first took over News Corp.'s small but troubled music division in 1996. Next, with investors clamoring for greater involvement with...