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...enough for Cooke that PBS viewers in America, and BBC listeners around the world, considered him a spirited, spirit-lifting member of their families. His Letters broadcasts often began with remarks about the view from his Fifth Avenue window, and letters from many countries, which bore the address "Alistair Cooke, Overlooking Central Park," ended up in his mail box. The man who knew everybody had the knack of making millions of strangers feel they knew him. That's the talent of a politician more than a journalist. But as The Unseen Alistair Cooke reveals, the man was no rabble-rouser...
...Crimson eventually was able to overcome its competitors and claw its way to a 158-142 win. “It was just a scrappy meet,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “The guys knew that whether they were getting first place or fifth place, every point was going to be important.” On Saturday, though, even if Diekema might have been a bit exhausted from the meet with Cornell, his speed in the water did not show it. Diekema individually won the 100-yard backstroke with a time...
...Camilo Mourino, and top security adviser Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos - was an accident and not narco sabotage. That dwindling public confidence has done nothing to help the Calderón administration fend off the effects of the global economic crisis. This year the Mexican peso has lost about a fifth of its value against the U.S. dollar...
Timeless NYC Bars. The historic Oak Room and Bar at The Plaza Hotel (Fifth Avenue and Central Park South; 212-759-3000) in New York City has just reopened. But with indifferent waitstaff and loud new-age lounge music, it's hardly been improved - this is no longer the classic old Oak Bar in which Cary Grant was mistaken for a spy and kidnapped in North by Northwest. If you're looking for the quintessential old New York boîte, try Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle (35 East 76th Street, at Madison Avenue; 212-744-1600). The murals...
...with Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937. The show is based around Miro's famous declaration that he wanted to "assassinate painting," and examines his energetic attempts to transcend the medium through collage, drawing - and painting. Through Jan. 12, 2009. 11 West 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, New York City...