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DIED. CY COLEMAN, 75, veteran composer for such Broadway musicals as Sweet Charity and City of Angels; of heart failure; in New York City. His jazzy songs, from Hey, Look Me Over to Big Spender, became hits for singers like Tony Bennett and Peggy Lee and epitomized Broadway songwriting at its most likably brash. A fluent pianist, he performed a cabaret act in New York City as recently as last month...
...This sweet-sounding boom box and charging station is a stylish place to park your iPod (shown here with iBeam flashlight). It fits any iPod with a docking port, even the Mini, and comes with remote control. bose.com...
Boyle's focus is on a trial that laid bare the racial tensions of Detroit in the 1920s. On Sept. 8, 1925, Ossian Sweet, a young black physician, moved with his wife and baby daughter into a bungalow in a largely white neighborhood. Just one night later, a white mob began showering the place with rocks while police stood by. Then a barrage of gunfire blazed back from the house. Anticipating trouble, Sweet had secretly stored away guns and recruited friends to help him defend his home...
...women too, are on their ingratiating best behavior in the blossoming of an affair. This isn't all salesmanship, closing the deal; it's that lovers swell with the sweet anticipation that this time will be different - perfect. And they will be different. They are, for a while: better than their best. It's at the bitter end of the affair that men, and women, tend to be at their worst, getting pathetic, shrill, vindictive. Especially if one of the pair feels wronged and righteous. No sadistic cop could grill a suspect with more brutal intensity than a man brings...
...bolognese, fresh snow peas, peanut butter and macadamia nuts. Whenever he gets a chance, Wyn Jones - an expert naturalist and a raconteur known to burst into snatches of song as he ploughs tirelessly through the bush - fires up his coffee maker, the aroma of caffeine mingling with the heady sweet scent of pink boronia flowers...