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...carful of young men ran a Saudi roadblock near Mecca. As they passed, the driver threw a grenade at the guards. Saudi security forces gave chase and cornered the men in a building. A standoff took shape. The Saudis called in reinforcements. Overwhelming force was applied to the situation. All the terrorists were killed, including a man easily identified from pictures plastered across the kingdom: Yusef al-Ayeri...
...starring John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr - the Beatles - is one of the smoothest, freshest, funniest films ever made solely for purposes of exploitation. Scorning plot, 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills 1966-1976 War in Vietnam, Nixon in China and Man on the Moon it affects to study an ordinary day or so in the wholly extraordinary...
...litany of India's comparative shortcomings omits a fundamental truth: China started first. China's key economic reforms took shape in the late 1970s, India's not until the early 1990s. But India is younger and freer than China. Many of its companies are already innovative world beaters. India is playing catch-up, for sure, but it has the skills, the people and the sort of hustle and dynamism that Americans respect, to do so. It deserves the new notice it has got in the U.S. We're all about to discover: this elephant can dance...
...burden lifted, say those close to him. Republican officials today were saying more freely what they long had thought: that Rove's conversations about Plame - whose husband, former ambassador, Joseph Wilson, was attacking the Administration case for war in Iraq - were nothing more than the effort to shape and beat back news stories that happens in any White House on any day. But Republicans were careful not to take a public victory lap, instead praising Fitzgerald's diligence...
...covers of LIFE, Look and other publications, and developing a technique that became known as "environmental portraiture"; in New York City. By exaggerating or minimizing his subjects' surroundings, he crafted impressionistic gems-most famously, a 1946 portrait of Igor Stravinsky in which a piano lid helps form the shape of a musical note, below-that suggested his sitters' personalities. In 1963 he infuriated Nazi-German industrialist and alleged Nazi collaborator Alfred Krupp with an intentionally demonic portrait. "As a Jew," Newman said, "it's my own little moment of revenge...