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...Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) succeeded in making the trans-language voyage simply by being one of the 20th century's greatest writers. A dazzling storyteller, his The Makioka Sisters, Shunkin, Some Prefer Nettles and The Key are all masterpieces. Unfortunately, The Gourmet Club (Kodansha International; 201 pages), a miscellany of six self-described short stories culled from a bottom drawer of the Tanizaki tansu, does not display the sensei at the top of his talents. Yet each of the pieces does reveal the characteristic marks and quirks of his oeuvre, both his genius and his grotesqueries, ranging from the mildly...
...left most of the football tactics to his coaches, Mee managed the team from 1966 to 1976. In his crowning moment, Mee led Arsenal in 1971 to championships in both the League and the FA Cup, only the second time a double win had been clinched in the 20th century. DIED. DANIEL WILDENSTEIN, 84, art dealer and racehorse owner; in Paris. Wildenstein was the head of a wealthy French dynasty founded in the 19th century. His controversial family owns two celebrated art galleries in New York City and one in Tokyo. A brilliant art scholar as well as a skillful...
...city politics, having made several runs for the City Council before. In his last run for the council, in 1999, he finished 20th out of 24 candidates...
...arrested in August on immigration charges after he attracted attention in Minnesota by offering thousands of dollars in cash for lessons on how to maneuver a plane in the air--but not how to land. Since his arrest, many observers have said Moussaoui was to have been the 20th member of the Sept. 11 hijackers...
...part of the group. Not so much as an ATM receipt connects him to the hijackers, and he was inquiring about lessons well after the others had finished theirs. These same officials wonder if he may have been part of another radical cell. They now suspect that the 20th hijacker was meant to be RAMZI BINALSHIBH, 29, a Yemeni who once shared an apartment with ringleader Mohamed Atta. On Sept. 21, Germany issued a warrant for Binalshibh, naming him as an accomplice in the attacks. U.S. investigators believe Binalshibh tried to enter the U.S. to take his place among...