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...lack of direction and barely concealed nihilism." He fulfilled a dream in 1947, though, by setting up the Magnum photo cooperative, named after the large champagne bottle. Capa next traveled to the Soviet Union, but the cold war did not suit his talents. Grazed - and badly shaken - by a bullet in Tel Aviv in 1948, he sat out the Korean War. But the gambler in him was lured back into the fray in 1954, to work again for Life magazine. "This is going to be a beautiful story," he said as he set out from the village of Nam Dinh...
They were all dancers. James Cagney propelled himself through space like a bullet or a bull terrier, his torso a few seconds ahead of his legs; anyone without a dancer's equilibrium would have fallen on his face. Henry Fonda was just the opposite: a triumph of convex geometry, his thin body a question mark that ambled at Stepin Fetchit pace toward a girl or a cause. Katharine Hepburn seemed always on the ascendant, scaling the invisible ramp of her own confidence. But of all the Golden Age Hollywood stars it was Fred Astaire who defined screen movement...
...January to assist the local military. But when the fighting ended several hours later, things had gone badly wrong. Martin Burnham, 42, a Christian missionary from Kansas, lay dead in the jungle. The nurse, Ediborah Yap, 48, had been shot in the back and died moments later. A bullet passed through the leg of Gracia Burnham, 43, and she had to be airlifted to Manila for treatment. Four Abu Sayyaf gang members also died in the shoot-out, but about two dozen others, including the group's leader, Abu Sabaya, escaped back into the jungle that has so successfully shielded...
...humble opinion, this is probably the most significant meeting that the Conference of Catholic Bishops in the U.S. has ever had. This is not the silver bullet. It's the first step in re-establishing a sense of credibility, trust and harmony between the bishops and the Catholic faithful...
...last time the gates of a Bangkok jail were thrown open to journalists, it was to watch a dozen or so drug runners each get a bullet to the back of the head. That was almost two years ago, at Bang Kwang, the infamous Bangkok Hilton. Thailand was in the grip of a methamphetamine binge, and the authorities hoped the bloody scenes would dissuade people from dealing in these "crazy medicine" pills. When Klong Prem's gates creaked open last week, it was to celebrate another kind of madness?where the only shots fired would be on goal...