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...image was so faint that scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., checked to make sure it was not the result of a blemish on the camera lens or static distorting the telemetry. But it was real, a tiny circle that represented a previously undiscovered moon only 35 miles in diameter, orbiting 37,500 miles above the murky atmosphere of the planet Uranus...
...with imagined ones, most notably in Goodbye to Berlin, his 1939 short-story collection about expatriates in decadent pre-Nazi Germany, which was adapted as I Am a Camera, a 1951 play and 1955 movie, and Cabaret, a 1966 Broadway musical and 1972 movie; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Always a rebel, he went to Berlin in 1929 to sample its illicit pleasures, as well as to visit his lifelong friend and sometime lover, W. H. Auden. An immigrant to the U.S. in 1939, Isherwood became an occasional Hollywood screenwriter and lecturer at various California campuses in his later...
...some East European countries. Soviet-style Marxism is a failure only by Western standards. Compared with the mess that China is in after 35 years under Deng and his associates, the Soviet Union is Nirvana. Thomas A. Metzger Professor of Chinese History University of California, San Diego La Jolla, Calif...
...foremost" one of their own. Maimonides embodied the Jews' mission to be "a light unto the nations." His multicultural genius enabled him to show the intellectual world the supremacy of the word of God over the philosophy of man. Rabbi Gershon Schusterman, Director The Hebrew Academy Lubavitch Westminster, Calif. Barely Mentioned...
Ancient and craggy, St. Bartholomew's Church has been standing in Covenham, England, since 1257, not long after rebellious barons pressured King John into signing the Magna Carta. Abandoned in 1978 and slated for demolition, it may be reborn in Orange County, Calif. The Episcopal congregation of St. Matthews-by-the-Sea in Corona del Mar wants to make the cross-shaped church its home, shipping it from the windswept North Sea coastal village, about 130 miles north of London, through the Panama Canal to California. Though small (64 members), St. Matthews is wealthy enough to raise the estimated...