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...songstress appears to have kept her promise. Last week, at age 92, Lynn became the oldest artist to top the British charts with We'll Meet Again - The Very Best of Vera Lynn, an album featuring 24 songs that evoke wartime Britain. Lynn, an East London plumber's daughter who went on to be known as the "Forces' Sweetheart," spoke with TIME about her music's resurgence 70 years later. (See the top-selling albums and singles...
...their recommendations were virtually unenforceable. Sarkozy, who has threatened to walk out of the G-20 meeting if there is no agreement on regulating bonuses, was also forced to abandon his initial call for a precise salary cap. By the end of the summit, he suggested that the best solution would be stricter rules on capital levels - a proposal that has already been made by the Financial Stability Board, a group of central bankers and regulators that has been tasked by the G-20 with formulating a plan to target bonuses. (See pictures of Nicolas Sarkozy...
...many of the architectural features of the new stadium are groundbreaking in themselves. The best of them are smart adaptations, well deployed. In particular, the arches and glass walls call to mind the new Wembley Stadium in London, a Foster design that Jones liked enough to visit three times on idea-gathering travels he and his wife Gene made to stadiums, airports and even shopping malls. Over the past few years, Gene also headed a project that commissioned site-specific works for the stadium by artists like Franz Ackermann, Mel Bochner and Olafur Eliasson, museum-quality names whose work...
...words are weapons, Frank Luntz is a samurai. The pollster and communications consultant has spent years shaping corporate and political messages based on focus groups and opinion surveys in all 50 states and overseas. His best-known client has been the Republican Party, for which he transformed the "estate tax" into "death tax" and helped popularize "tax relief" to replace mere "tax cuts." The Fox News contributor has compiled his insights into public opinion in a new book, What Americans Really Want... Really. He spoke with TIME about the health-care debate, the benefits of ambushing CEOs and what...
...understand we need the U.S. market, and we also have a desire for stability right now - more so than usual. Next month is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and then in November you are coming to Beijing. So I thought it best to keep things on an even keel and let this tire thing go. (Read "China's 60th Birthday: The Road to Prosperity...