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...years; in Ojai, California. Bernstein composed the muscular jazz scores for such '50s films as The Man With the Golden Arm and Sweet Smell of Success; worked in a more delicate, bluer key for films like To Kill a Mockingbird and Far From Heaven; and created the familiar, oft-heard themes for The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape. His only Oscar came for his score (but not the songs) to Thoroughly Modern Millie...
...recovered. Probable Cause FRANCE A preliminary government report concluded that the partial collapse of a terminal building at Charles de Gaulle airport in May, which killed four passengers, was likely caused by metal support struts piercing the tubular structure's concrete shell. Their Day in Court YEMEN The oft-delayed trial of six alleged al-Qaeda members accused of planning the suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole opened in Sanaa. The attack, in Aden harbor in October 2000, left 17 American sailors dead. Alleged mastermind Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is in U.S. custody and is being tried...
...nuanced than his critique of a willingly shallow media. To harnesses the claustrophobia that's built into life in one of the world's most crowded cities, as pitched shootouts are fought inside the narrow confines of apartment hallways, elevator shafts, even the cluttered streets. It's not the oft-copied bullet ballet of John Woo or Tsui Hark; To's style is all hard lines and quick-trigger speed. But more than a decade after Woo brought Hong Kong to Hollywood, the deceptively simple pleasures of Breaking News shows that the original blueprint still works. It's as simple...
Finger Lakes Wines This oft-overlooked grape-growing region in northwestern New York is home to more than 80 wineries...
...seriousness that is almost wholly undeserved. It's true that they issued a long-overdue apology for the homophobia of their historically dumb first record, 1986's Licensed to Ill, and continued to champion the cause of Tibetan freedom. But in much the same way that Condoleezza Rice's oft repeated desire to be commissioner of the NFL hardly makes her a jock, the Beasties' hopes for a free Tibet don't make them statesmen. The Tibet thing was just, you know, something they kind of wished would happen. But the absence of new Beastie music has had the effect...