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...continue with this dead-end process," Denktash said after the election results. Papadopoulos is not an obvious peacemaker. He studied law in Britain and became a successful lawyer and politician, after having fought with EOKA, Cyprus' nationalist guerrilla movement, against British troops who occupied the island in the 1950s. In the 1990s, Papadopoulos was a legal adviser to Beogradska Banka, the Yugoslav state-owned bank, during Slobodan Milosevic's rule - an association that seemed at the time to bring him into conflict with U.S. officials. But with Milosevic now in jail, and a war looming against Iraq, all that appears...
...close of World War II, Mailer was in the Pacific; during the 1950s, he was part of Greenwich Village counterculture; when Vietnam arrived, he was protesting it; in the 1980s, he ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City. Beyond penning the novels for which he is chiefly known, he founded and named The Village Voice, directed several films, and became one of the original exponents of New Journalism—a style that blurs the line between journalism and narrative fiction. “Repetition kills the soul,” Mailer writes in one of the book?...
...early 1950s, many of the actors instrumental in the Brattle’s early history had moved on to professional careers in acting. The door was open for change, and in 1953 Cyrus Harvey, Jr. ’47 and Bryan Halliday, both Harvard affiliates, decided to convert the Brattle from a performance space to a movie theater...
...lenders who dreamed up reverse mortgages in the 1950s figured the annuity option would be the most popular, since it gives homeowners a chance to beat the bank (if they live longer than expected). Instead, two-thirds take the line of credit, figuring to use only as much as they need and preserve the rest, according to Ken Scholen, a home-equity expert at the AARP. Any unused portion of the credit line grows with inflation...
...first concert. All I had heard before this point in my native Bombay was our local, semiprofessional orchestra or records, and records in the early 1950s didn't have the sound we are used to today...