Martin Indyk is the vice president and director of foreign policy at The Brookings Institution and author of the recently published Innocent Abroad: An Intimate Account of American Peace Diplomacy in the Middle East (Simon & Schuster 2009).
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The Trouble with Soul Train
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Stanley Crouch's culture pieces have appeared in Harper's, The New York Times, Vogue, Downbeat, The New Yorker, and more. He has served as artistic consultant for jazz programming at Lincoln Center since 1987, and is a founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center. In June 2006 his first major collection of jazz criticism, Considering Genius: Jazz Writings, was published. Next year the first volume of his long-awaited biography of Charlie Parker will appear.
A new VH-1 documentary celebrates the landmark television show, but as Stanley Crouch writes, the real power of looking back at Soul Train is seeing what black culture has lost.
The Week in Culture
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Rachel Syme is the former culture editor of The Daily Beast and now writes regularly about the arts.
This week, the iPad finally appeared, Ugly Betty met its maker, and Justin Timberlake belted one out for Haiti. VIEW OUR GALLERY.
Bruce Weber's All-American World
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Isabel Wilkinson is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast.
Photographer Bruce Weber has produced two new books-including nude portraits of ballet dancer Roberto Bolle, and never-before-seen images of Michael Jackson. VIEW OUR GALLERY
The Week in Culture
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Rachel Syme is the former culture editor of The Daily Beast and now writes regularly about the arts.
This week, Bob Dylan wishes you a Merry Christmas, R. Kelly pens a memoir, and Lovely Bones hits theaters. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the best in music, art, film, and TV.
New York City Ballet: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Dance lovers have much to look forward to with the New York City Ballet's upcoming performance of George Balanchine's A Midsummer Night's Dream-previewed in this just-released clip.
The Week in Culture
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Rachel Syme is the former culture editor of The Daily Beast and now writes regularly about the arts.
This week, Obama mingles with Hollywood's A-list, Precious finally hits theaters, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin team up, and more in art, music, theater, and film.
The Week in Culture
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Rachel Syme is the former culture editor of The Daily Beast and now writes regularly about the arts.
This week, Michael Bublé dominates everyone, von Trier's Antichrist brings terror to theaters, a rare violin goes for $10 million, and more from the worlds of art, music, television, and film.
Why Bibi Humiliated Biden
America's Craziest Cities
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U.S. Debunks Autism Myth
Adam Winkler is a constitutional law professor at UCLA.
What Liz Doesn't Get About Lawyers
Charles Fried was Solicitor General of the United States. His book with Gregory Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Gregory Fried is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. His book with Charles Fried, Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror, will be published by W. W. Norton in September.
Haiti Loses Its Lifeboat
Dr. Sheri Fink the award-winning book, War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival (Public Affairs, 2003), about wartime Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina. She received her M.D. and Ph.D. from Stanford. She was the recipient of a Kaiser Media Fellowship in Health from the Kaiser Family Foundation and is currently a senior fellow at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
