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...native country, training his lens mostly on modern Europe's complex landscapes and honing a stark, desolate style. But it isn't all gloom: whatever his subject matter, Koudelka's photographs are marked by his indelible persona. It is this that enables them to transcend mere form: with the eye of a poet, he sees into the soul of his subjects, giving viewers a privileged glimpse into the ineffable...
...trouble. The street gangs that carved up New York City back then were fueled by crime, but many members joined primarily for the sake of the fringe benefits - access to the forbidden pleasures of drink, drugs and sex. And then, as ever since, young toughs also had an eye to fashion. For example, the Parisian hoodlums of that era - known as Apaches - wore silk foulards and, writes Savage, "an air of bourgeois hauteur." In England's inner cities, where there were regular pitched battles between gangs - Birmingham's Peaky Blinders, Liverpool's High Rip or the Monkey's Parade from...
Sarkozy's basic working style isn't likely to change: he surrounds himself with trusted lieutenants and then keeps a sharp eye on them. "He's not on your back, but he wants to be informed about everything, good or bad," says Eric Cesari, a member of Sarkozy's presidential Cabinet at the Council of Hauts-de-Seine, the suburban belt outside Paris that includes his fiefdom of Neuilly. "He can be demanding, even harsh and rude, but what he wants is that you tell him the truth. He has no use for yes men." Says Jacques Gautier, Sarkozy...
...After his return and his graduation from college, Mitt and his father didn't see eye to eye on what he should do next. George argued for law school; Mitt wanted to go to business school. So he pursued both degrees simultaneously at Harvard. Romney would immediately put that business degree to spectacularly successful use. But whereas his father had been an industrialist, staking his fortunes on what he produced, Mitt moved first into consulting and then into venture capitalism - a field in which, says his former partner and current campaign chairman Bob White, "you need to be able...
...Normally you travel abroad a lot for a first time when you're a university student. I spent my summers in hospital because I had a series of eye operations from an injury playing rugby, so a lot of my original plans for foreign travel were frustrated...