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...composer-lyricist whose eminently hummable tunes were recorded by the likes of Guy Lombardo (Enjoy Yourself) and Billie Holiday (Crazy, He Calls Me); in Manhasset, N.Y. Most active in the '40s and '50s, he wrote everything from Frank Sinatra ballads (What Now My Love) to TV theme songs ("Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen"). His last major hit was the theme for Love Story (Where Do I Begin?), a sentimental coda to a remarkable career...
...straight-faced that "this was actually a HUD home. This is the new affordable housing proposed by Clinton and Gore. We think, after this, that more neighborhoods will be open to public housing!" Actor William Baldwin, president of the Creative Coalition, was clearly gloating at the mass of celebrity-hood in attendance. "Smoke and mirrors, Tinseltown and Hollywood. We fooled 'em again," he said surveying the crowd. "Here were are using the resources of the entertainment community and the resource of celebrity to support arts education, First Amendment rights and campaign finance reform...
...terrorist group. Since then, the group has killed an additional 22 Greek and foreign nationals, including four American officials. Saunders, 53 and the father of two, was the first British envoy to be slain by the notorious terrorists, who are occasionally portrayed by Greek media as latter-day Robin Hood ideologues, battling Western overlords and NATO in pursuit of Greek interests, and in defense of Greece's onetime close allies the Serbs. When NATO launched its 1999 bombing blitz of Yugoslavia, 17 November, plus a sideshow of some 80 extremist groups, retaliated in Greece with a spate of bomb...
...forest in India's longest-running manhunt. It has yielded nothing. Why not? It is often said that the bandit bribes politicians and policemen to tip him off about commando operations. But he also has a network of informers, who dread and respect him. Like a modern-day Robin Hood, he helps the poor with money but demands absolute loyalty in return. His most popular deed was the alleged killing of an associate for raping a tribal woman...
Jobs also announced that Apple's higher-end G4 POWER MACS will come with not one but two processors under the hood. The only disappointment was the news about Apple's new and improved operating system, OSX. It won't be released until early 2001; a beta version is due out this fall...