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...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...
...moved to Berlin and took up photojournalism. His first big break came in 1932, when he was assigned to photograph Trotsky as he spoke in a Copenhagen stadium on the meaning of the Russian Revolution. His pictures were the most dramatic of the day, writes Kershaw. Taken within a meter of so of Trotsky, they were intense, intimate and imperfect - the trademarks of the man who would become famous as Capa, or "shark" in Hungarian. As Nazi power grew in Germany, Friedmann moved to Paris, the only city he would ever consider home. In France, he documented the social...
...gave himself up to the police. Ecleo has about 1 million followers in the Philippines, who believe he is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ. AUSTRALIA Just Another Trick of the Light In an experiment straight out of Star Trek, two Australian scientists teleported information between two laser beams a meter apart. The scientists made use of a phenomenon called quantum entanglement to dismantle a signal-transmitted in photons, or particles of light-in one shaft of laser light and instantaneously rebuild a replica of it in a second laser beam. Star Trek-style transporters that could move objects through space...
...mats of a Japanese restaurant in Beijing, Jiang Wen looks spent. China's gruffest actor and boldest director has been slouching and smoking and dishing out melancholy in front of the camera all day, and he can look forward to more of the same through the night. His 1.83-meter, 98-kilo frame crumples against the wall, his eyes beat and basset-hound weary...
...itself. The move is partly a response to Israel radio's broadcasts in Farsi. CHINA Freak Floods At least 205 people died and hundreds are missing in floods that struck northern China. In the worst-affected area, a normally arid region south of the city of Xian, nearly a meter of rain fell in just two days. Torrential rains triggered landslides and caused rivers to overflow their banks. More than 3.6 million hectares of farmland have been inundated in the flooding. NEW ZEALAND Snap Election Prime Minister Helen Clark called an election for 27 July, two months before...