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...Written 60 to 80 years ago, mostly for forgotten shows and movies, these bouncy, brittle, worldly and world-weary tunes - "Manhattan," "Blue Moon," "My Funny Valentine," "Where or When," "The Lady Is a Tramp, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," dozens more - sound both today and timeless. They sing (with confident wit) and speak (with confidential despair) about tough hearts ready to break, melt or explode. Rodgers' melodies get you humming, then dreaming, but the subject and style of these songs, their matter and meter, come straight from Hart's heart...
...Center concerts have the freshness of the team's old Columbia University Varsity Shows. On the edge of a millennium, they distill the joy of 80 years ago, when two bright kids from the Upper West Side just wanted to put on a show; when their songs turned a Manhattan theater auditorium into an aisle of joy; when each day was Valentine's Day; when every new show brought another favorite work of Hart...
SEPT. 11 PORTRAITS David Halberstam's chronicle of a bereaved Manhattan firehouse that lost 12 men on Sept. 11 depicts in mournful detail the unique bonds that firefighters share...
...heart, Bush's speech will praise his corporate audience but also "call business leaders to a higher ethical standard," says one who has worked on it. Speaking in Manhattan, the president will refer to the "character of New York," after the attacks of 9/11, a suggestion that Wall Street should aim for the same standard. Throughout the week, cabinet secretaries will help make the big sell. Commerce Secretary Don Evans and Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, both ex-CEOs will speak to a town hall meeting of investor groups, and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will assure people their pensions...
...sweltering Tuesday just before the Fourth of July, TIME.com hit the streets of Manhattan to ask New Yorkers how they felt about the upcoming holiday: Were they fearful, apprehensive or unaffected? Much like the city's inhabitants, the responses were wildly varied...