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DIED. RUSTY DRAPER, 80, country singer of the 1950s and '60s, responsible for such million sellers as Gambler's Guitar and The Shifting, Whispering Sands; of pneumonia; in Bellevue, Wash...
...enemy not on the battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war--which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization of news. It was one thing to frog-march a Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony...
...went to Capolino and offered to help him sell 1950s baseball jerseys--long collector's items for middle-aged sports nuts--to inner-city youths. Harley proposed to first target those who could most afford M&N's finely stitched replicas--pro athletes and rappers. He started, as he puts it, "crashing parties" at New York City and Philadelphia nightclubs. Once he had P. Diddy and Fabolous on board, Harley persuaded Capolino to fly him around the country to network with other music and sports stars at awards shows, All-Star games and other big events like the Super Bowl...
...QUIET AMERICAN. Michael Caine is garnering some of the best reviews of his career for his role as a hardened journalist in this adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel. The film, set in 1950s Vietnam, pits Caine against Brendan Fraser’s undercover American spy as Fraser vies for the affections of Caine’s Vietnamese mistress (Do Thi Hai Yen). Fraser’s intervention in the romance is intended to parallel the film’s other plot—a commentary on the early American efforts to eradicate communism in Vietnam. Christopher Hampton...
...enemy not on the battlefield but in towns and villages. The risks are twofold: an ambush like that in Mogadishu or a gradual alienation of the local population leading to unbearable political pressure to end a war - which is how the French were forced out of Algeria. In the 1950s, the British perfected antiguerrilla warfare in Malaya, Cyprus and Kenya. But that was before the invention of the video camera and the globalization of news. It was one thing to frog-march a Malay headman to jail or torch a Kenyan village in the privacy of one's own colony...