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...commercialism, Steichen had a human side. He served his adopted country in World War I, and his work in aerial reconnaissance photography persuaded him to abandon the painterly pictorialist style for clear, precise images. At 60, he enlisted in Word War II, specializing in public relations photos and documentaries. From time to time, Steichen would drop out of commercial life to tend his own garden, literally. He loved flowers, breeding them (an iris is named after him) and photographing them. His floral pictures provide almost the only color in this dramatic, black-and-white show...
...audience lingers for another 45 min., asking questions about health, marriage, reducing stress. Swamiji, like any good management guru, pushes his newest book, The Fall of the Human Intellect, one of 10 he has written over the decades ("Every word, between 4 and 6 in the morning," he later explains. "After 6, it's not worth reading.") He invites the audience to come to a YPO retreat in January at his Vedanta Academy, 67 miles (108 km) southeast of Mumbai...
...9/11. A speech had been written for the occasion, to be delivered by an Iraqi spokesman, noting parallels between the acts of terrorism committed by Hashem under Saddam and the attacks in the U.S. six years earlier. Then at 10 p.m., the Iraqi officials at the gallows received word that the helicopter was not coming. Hashem's life was spared--for the moment...
...began negotiating his surrender with General David Petraeus, then commander of U.S. forces in northern Iraq. Petraeus guaranteed Hashem's safety and medical treatment, and wrote a letter extolling his "reputation as a man of honor and integrity ... known throughout this country." Most important, Petraeus pledged to Hashem his "word that you will be treated with the utmost dignity and respect, and that you will not be physically or mentally mistreated while under my custody." Petraeus personally accepted Hashem's surrender in September 2003 and made his aircraft available so the former Iraqi Defense Minister could fly in comfort...
When China's President Hu Jintao opened the Communist Party's pivotal 17th National Congress on Oct. 15, the 2,000-plus delegates probably didn't expect the 64-year-old to flog the word democracy. But he did, using the term more than 60 times in 2 1?2 hours, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. But before anyone could break out the voting booths, Xinhua carried another story that clarified what Hu really meant: China would continue to develop democracy "with Chinese characteristics" under the "leadership of the Communist Party...