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...DIED. FOSTER BROOKS, 89, teetotaler whose trademark act--an endearing lush trying to pretend he's sober--was a staple of TV variety shows of the '70s and '80s; in Encino, Calif. A friend asked Brooks to tell a few jokes at a 1969 charity golf tournament. His improvised drunk, which delighted the power crowd, led to appearances on Dean Martin roasts and the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson...
...Bush Administration has argued that shifting this funding from the Smithsonian to the National Science Foundation would foster a more competitive review process. But the scientists who work at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center already compete for funding for their projects; the proposed change would routinely place the basic infrastructure of the observatory in jeopardy...
...Like Foster, Berlin adapted some of his early hits from Negro music. And in his first flush of success, 90 years ago, he wrote so prolifically (averaging a new published song a week) that it was rumored "a little colored boy" was the real composer of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" and other syncopated hits. (Berlin's response, noted in Lawrence Bergreen's excellent biography "As Thousands Cheer": "Do you realize how many little nigger boys I'd have to have?") The simple fact is that he wrote fast. In 1946, when he accepted the job of doing the music...
...mental juke boxes of people who don't care who wrote them or how long ago they were first popular. Like a pretty girl (in another Berlin lyric), his melodies haunt you night and day. They are the 20th century's enduring folk music, and Berlin was the Stephen Foster of his age, and ours...
...slain compatriots, the two factions formed a National and Islamic Committee in every Palestinian town. The committee includes members of Hamas and its spin-off, Islamic Jihad, as well as the various components of the Palestine Liberation Organization, including Arafat's party, Fatah. Contacts on this level helped foster similar ties on the military front. "Joint attacks," notes a senior official in Israeli military intelligence, "are not a marginal phenomenon lately." The links between these organizations, as well as between the Islamists and the official security forces of the Authority, have become so complex and active that the Shin...