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...Born in Luxembourg, Steichen emigrated to the U.S. with his parents when he was two. After training in lithography, he began careers in both photography and painting. Though he abandoned painting in the 1920s, he spent his long life making the case for photography as fine art. He also believed that serious photography could be both artistic and commercial, an insistence that led to his falling out with the more high-minded Alfred Stieglitz, his mentor, friend and co-founder of the Photo-Secessionist movement...
...Marilyn Monroe’s first husband James Dougherty—the only unknown in a string of infamous lovers, the only one who fell for the actress when she, too, was an unknown—had spent the rest of his life loving her, chasing her, trying to tame her after she’d left him, his memoir would have read like Mario Vargas Llosa’s new novel, “The Bad Girl.” While Marilyn is probably the original Bad Girl, the novel’s titular bad girl is no less...
...will proceed carefully. Besides, Gates, an old cold warrior, knows all about the balance of power. And partly as a result, he also named two notable Bush administration veterans to the Board at the same time: former NSC director Bob Joseph and deputy NSC adviser J.D. Crouch. Both have spent years working for the President on foreign policy and are personally identified with the foundation of America's adventure in Iraq. They will join other Republican notables like Henry Kissinger, Newt Gingrich and Fred Ikle...
...crowd were fans. Raheel Iqbal, the former information secretary for the Karachi wing of the People's party said that Bhutto had betrayed her father's cause. "Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's manifesto was anti-imperialist, anti-general and anti dictatorship. We spent years in jail to stand up for this manifesto, and now Benazir arrives with American support, and has been making meetings with General Musharraf. Democracy does not require a deal with a dictator." Bhutto has returned to Pakistan with the tacit support of President General Pervez Musharraf, who took power in 1999. Bhutto and Musharraf have been negotiating...
...have impressed Stalin. It was widely noted, for example, that Hu's predecessor and the purported head of a rival political faction, 84-year-old Jiang Zemin, pointedly looked at his watch no less than four times during the speech. Then again, it was equally widely noted that Jiang spent even more time admiring one of the young women charged with serving him tea during Hu's speech, with one wire service even posting the pictures to prove...