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Although the Bush Administration at times overstated al-Zarqawi's indispensability to a predominantly homegrown insurgency, al-Zarqawi himself was a master of self-promotion. The high school dropout learned to use the Internet to burnish his image, recruit fighters and propagate his dream of perpetual jihad against infidels everywhere. It was his name that filled collection boxes in extremist mosques across the Islamic world. The National Counterterrorism Center believes that militants linked to al-Zarqawi may be operating in as many as 40 countries. In Iraq his dark charisma turned him into a figure of myth and legend...
...snapped 49˘ portraits before creating photographs that graced the covers of LIFE, Look and other publications and developing a technique that became known as "environmental portraiture"; in New York City. By exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems--such as the 1959 portrait of master builder Robert Moses, above, a giant against the Manhattan skyline that he helped to shape--that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman said, "it's my own little moment of revenge...
DIED. Billy Preston, 59, effervescent master R&B keyboardist of the '60s and '70s, later derailed by struggles with alcohol abuse and cocaine addiction; after a long battle with kidney disease that had left him in a coma since November; in Scottsdale, Ariz. At age 7, Preston started directing choir sessions at his Los Angeles church before impressing larger audiences with such hits as Nothing from Nothing and Will It Go Round in Circles? Yet to such peers as Bob Dylan and the Beatles, the gregarious, gospel-influenced virtuoso, who also wrote You Are So Beautiful for Joe Cocker...
...achievements in academics and athletics, friends and family alike were even more inspired by Gilligan’s personality and outlook on life. “Paul was more than a gifted and tireless athlete. He was a joyful, gentle, and generous person,” said Eliot House Master Lino Pertile in his eulogy at a memorial service for Gilligan in September. In what is known as his infamous “tongue-in-cheek” application for IM Athlete of the Year, Gilligan demonstrated the affable spirit that won him over in the hearts...
...understanding gathered 30 years ago were accurate as far as they went--but rudimentary. Today scientists have a much deeper understanding of what foods and activities are healthful or harmful--and why. The good news is that the path to a healthier heart is now pretty clear, once you master a few key concepts...