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...George Martin, who as the group's record producer surely deserves to be called the fifth Beatle? Martin, now 80, had with his son Giles confected the elaborate and imaginative soundscape for Love. When the extravaganza officially opens Friday night, the Martins will be joined by the surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and by George Harrison's widow Olivia and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono. My guess is that they'll be pleased and moved...
...gave the early hits a clean, full sound. And as Lennon and McCartney grew apart, but even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo guitar rendition of "Yesterday" - the first of many flabbergasting expansions of the Beatles' basic rock 'n' roll sound - and who helped alchemize John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" into coherent electronic chaos...
...even the paradigm of today's politics. I also want to pay tribute to those who created our Roosevelt issue. It was overseen by Priscilla Painton and Richard Lacayo, who was a superb player-coach and wrote two pieces for the issue. We commissioned pieces from the historian Paul Kennedy and some of Roosevelt's most prominent recent biographers, including Kathleen Dalton, Candice Millard and Patricia O'Toole. Presidential adviser Karl Rove sent in his story Friday morning, and it instantly became the endpiece of the package. The striking cover portrait is by the artist Michael J. Deas...
...foreign aid to the developing world has declined over the past two decades, it is long-term projects that have suffered most. "We risk getting into a pernicious cycle where money for long-term recovery is being diverted to fund emergency relief," says head of Oxfam in East Africa, Paul Smith-Lomas. "If long-term projects are raided every time we face a crisis, the region will never progress." The U.N. has come up with an answer, a retooled version of a 15-year-old emergency relief reserve, now called the Central Emergency Response Fund (cerf). Until a few months...
...minor immigration offenses that were uncovered during the course of a terrorism investigation. In response to critics who noted that one of the few patterns to emerge from domestic prosecutions is that the suspects seem too incompetent to carry out the deeds they're accused of, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty acknowledged last week that the Department of Justice's goal is "prevention through prosecution...