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...died with her. Still, he pursued his calling, traveling to China in 1938 to cover the Sino-Japanese war, back to Spain as the Republican cause was collapsing and then, as World War II raged, on to North Africa, Sicily, the Italian mainland and - most traumatically - to Omaha Beach and the slaughter of the D-Day invasion. It was in Spain that Capa took his best-known photo, which purported to show a militiaman a split second after he'd been fatally shot. Debate over its authenticity still rages. The "truth" of the photo, says Kershaw, is in its representation...
...surely represents that to me; I've already written about him for TIME.com, in That Old Feeling columns on Irving Berlin and Gene Kelly. In 1998 I wrote a TIME piece called "High and Low," about the devolution of the people's art. " Start with two fellows from Omaha, Neb., born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: women's hearts, codes of behavior...
...drive more recklessly or, in the case of schools, behave worse? Perhaps race is just incidental, and gender or class is the overriding factor. "This is not a simple matter, where the numbers speak for themselves," says Samuel Walker, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. "In the past two years there have been five or six conferences on traffic-stop data, and there's still no consensus...
...Catholic Church will survive. We have the word of our founder, Jesus Christ: "You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it." Although evil personified is trying, it will not succeed. AUDREY JAURON CELESTE LAWLER Omaha...
Both the Faint and Oberst have spurned offers from major record labels that could put marketing machines behind their music, and stayed with Saddle Creek, the tiny Omaha label that nurtured them. Will this fraternity hold? Young bands need the support of a local label in the early years but can quickly outgrow it. Danse Macabre is five-year-old Saddle Creek's current cash cow, but the label couldn't have promoted it so well had it not been for the earlier success of Bright Eyes. "Each group has had a period of carrying all of us," says Oberst...