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Grammy Awards were handed out last week in 107 categories. If you didn't win one, you probably weren't trying. (Or you were up against Ray Charles' much-loved, little-listened-to Genius Loves Company.) Here, TIME's Josh Tyrangiel picks through the albums the 17,000-member recording academy rewarded and a few it mysteriously overlooked to find ones you will like...
...attended by U.S. President George W. Bush and China President Hu Jintao. Salzman, who toughed out the lean years and built an industrial-materials distributorship with annual turnover of $100 million, says he thinks Vietnam has finally arrived as a modern economy. "Before, people said [the Vietnamese] weren't ready," he says. "Now, I think they're ready...
GEORGE W. BUSH He gave up his stay-the-course catchphrase, told people that terrorists wanted the Democrats to win and even admitted, you know, things in Iraq weren't going that well. Yet in the end, he was offering Nancy Pelosi the names of some good "Republican interior decorators," which means the G.O.P. is a bigger tent than we thought...
...that's where the action was and is. The two enticements foreign films offered U.S. audiences - intellectual panache, with a little sex - were no longer unique once Hollywood raised its I.Q. and dropped its drawers. Later still, many of the best filmmakers died or retired, and the films, frankly, weren't as exciting. (Or maybe, after all those years, we of the first film generation weren't so easily excited.) And the art houses that regularly played exotics from abroad switched to Sundance-type indie movies. Foreign-film revenue gradually dropped from its '60s high of about...
...refused to back down," Yarmuth, 59, told a wildly cheering crowd at downtown's Seelbach hotel, made famous as the site of Daisy and Tom's wedding in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. "We weren't Republican light. We weren't Democrat light. We were Democrats...