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...adored across the world. There are stories that still won’t die about tiny huts in Latin America that had two pictures on the wall—one of Kennedy, the other of the pope. Dwight D. Eisenhower was widely hailed as a master diplomat and conciliator, not least by Europeans. Even Ho Chi Minh based the Vietnamese Declaration of Independence on the American model...
...complexities of manufacturing and distribution have proved too much for many fashion designers, Calvin Klein among them. Getting two legs on a pair of pants seems to be their limit. So Wachner came to the rescue. A master of fashion marketing, she became one of the principal licensees for Klein, making jeans and underwear and giving him 5% to 10% royalties in return. She practically invented the men's fashion-underwear business and grew Klein's total sales from $55 million to $340 million...
...love story, a prophecy and a fairy tale (Pinocchio, to be exact) in the guise of a science-fiction film, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence represents the collaboration and collision of two master filmmakers: Stanley Kubrick, who spent parts of more than 15 years on the project; and Steven Spielberg, whom Kubrick finally asked to direct it, and who did, from his own screenplay, after Kubrick's death in 1999. The film, whose genesis and shooting have long been cocooned in secrecy, opens next week...
Some great ideas are so obvious that nobody thinks to carry them out. Songbird Karrin Allyson, for example, is the first jazz vocalist ever to record a CD devoted to the songs performed by master saxophonist John Coltrane on Ballads, his classic 1961 album. Hers is a deliciously moody collection of still-fresh standards like It's Easy to Remember, in which Allyson's slender, sunny voice is dappled with dark shadows of rue. Perfect for late-night listening, with or without a like-minded companion...
...Cambridge, Mass., and flies?to Jackson, Miss., to teach algebra at all-black Lanier High School. Moses, 66,?is determined to make mathematical literacy as much a battle cry as voting rights were 40 years ago. He wants to overthrow what he calls "sharecropper education" by helping all students master algebra, preferably by the eighth grade, so they are ready to take college-prep math courses in high school...