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...Berlin, suffering from a bout of self-doubt, had written, then written off this pleading ballad (along with another plaint, "How Deep Is the Ocean?"). Then a Berlin associate let megaphone man Rudy Vallee perform it on his radio show. The song was a #1 hit for George Olsen and awarded top-10 perches to versions by Connee Boswell and Ozzie Nelson?s band. In her pop-diva phase, Aretha Franklin had a minor flurry with her single of the song in 1963 - 31 years later...
...struggle against the West; it is the hateful preaching by the teachers of those young Muslims. We must bring the Age of Enlightenment to the Muslim world and propagandize in direct opposition to what the imams and schoolteachers are pumping into the heads of that younger generation. RICHARD BRAWER Ocean...
...nation's patriotic spirit, it's no wonder that U.S. troops overseas will be getting special attention this Christmas. Thanks to the Internet, people can send e-mail messages to service members anyservicemember.navy.mil) Plenty of stars are also pitching in, among them George Clooney and the cast of OCEAN'S ELEVEN, who appeared at the film premiere on a military base in Turkey. Here are some other ways Americans are taking the holiday spirit to the troops...
...France's Brittany coast, in 1938 after his infant son was murdered--have long acquired private islands for safety and privacy. In the 1990s, as the millionaire club became far less exclusive, island purchases grew into a worldwide market, from Australia's Great Barrier Reef to the Indian Ocean. Off the coast of Georgia, Moeser can sell you 2,600-acre Hampton Island, with a Greek Revival plantation house, for $16 million. And in the frigid waters off Nova Scotia, Vladi Private Islands, based in Hamburg, Germany, offers properties like fir-forested, 2-acre Nubble for as little...
...Afghanistan's children with more than food and blankets. I suggest that the kids of America purchase dolls and other toys from thrift stores or gather their discarded G.I. Joes and Barbies and take them to the nearest military base. From there the toys could be shipped across the ocean and distributed to needy Afghan kids. This gesture, in a spirit of hope for a lasting peaceful relationship, with no strings attached, would help the people of that devastated land know that somebody cares. BOB RICHARD San Diego...