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...such Broadway musicals as Cabaret and Chicago; of a heart attack; in New York City. He grew up on the Lower East Side and first went to Hollywood to try to sell his short stories before turning to songwriting. After penning a few pop hits (including the novelty number Santa Baby), he teamed up with Kander for a renowned Broadway run that started with 1965's Flora the Red Menace. They were long associated with that show's star, Liza Minnelli, who, in a 1977 Martin Scorsese film, introduced their omnipresent big-city anthem, New York, New York...
...Republican who belonged to the National Rifle Association. DIED. FRED EBB, 76, lyricist who, in partnership with composer John Kander, created the brassy, cynical-but-sweet scores of such Broadway musicals as Cabaret and Chicago; in New York City. After penning a few pop hits (including the novelty number Santa Baby), he teamed up with Kander for a long Broadway run that started with Flora the Red Menace in 1965. They were long associated with that show's star, Liza Minnelli, who, in a 1977 Martin Scorsese film, introduced their omnipresent big-city anthem, New York, New York. DIED. HARVEY...
...started thirteen years ago in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My parents have always been “activists.” For most of my life they have worked, in one capacity or another, for labor unions and the workers who join them. Thirteen years ago, they took me to my first picket line. The strikers I walked with won their struggle, and ever since, I have been, as my parents would say, “In The Movement...
...turning to wine tourism as a means of selling a brighter national identity. Colchagua now has a Ruta del Vino (Wine Route), with train service, tastings on decks built high into vineyard hills, horseback excursions and rodeos performed by huasos (cowboys). Four-star Spanish-colonial-style hotels like the Santa Cruz Plaza are sprouting up, and festivals like the Vendimia (grape harvest) are drawing new crowds of foreigners. At the bottom of the world these days, the wine future looks all bottoms up. --With reporting by Cristobal Edwards/the Colchagua Valley and Uki Goni/Mendoza
...with unseasonal intensity late last month, blackening more than 3,500 acres. Fire fighters this time were able to contain the flames, but next time they may not be so lucky. A five-year drought has left this always arid region even dryer than usual, and when the hot Santa Ana winds start to blow off the desert in September, it could take only a spark to set off fires that will be much more difficult to control...