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Pakenham, 69, a self-taught photographer, has already parlayed his arboreal love affair into a best-selling collection of portraits of 60 remarkable British and Irish trees. On the strength of that book's unexpected success (and the bbc series that grew from it), he has spent the past four years roaming five continents, 30 lbs. of camera equipment in tow, in search of the world's most fascinating trees. The result of his quest, a stunning volume titled Remarkable Trees of the World (W.W. Norton; 192 pages), arrives in bookstores this week...
since learning that former prime minister JOHN MAJOR carried on an extramarital affair 14 years ago, British citizens seem divided over whether they should chastise or cheer him. The revelations came with the serialized publication of the diaries of EDWINA CURRIE, who disclosed that between 1984 and 1988, when both she and Major were married and serving in government, they shared a passion for more than just Tory ideology. Major, who became Prime Minister in 1990, had a reputation for being a bland bureaucrat, an image reinforced by his "Back to Basics" campaign, an attempt to upgrade the image...
...forces engaged in the war on terrorism are also under attack in Afghanistan, where al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies are waging a guerrilla campaign in the south and east of the country, with rocket attacks on U.S. bases becoming an almost daily affair. And in the Philippines last Wednesday, a U.S. soldier was killed by a nail bomb thrown from a motorcycle in an attack blamed on the radical Islamist Abu Sayyaf group, whose operations have been the focus of U.S. counterinsurgency efforts there...
...penniless Irene (Gina McKee), his temperamental opposite: she loves art, he's a philistine; she is drawn to ideas, he to money. Naturally, she marries him. Soon she's making eyes at Philip Bosinney (Ioan Gruffudd), the brilliant, artistic architect whom Soames hires to build a country house. Their affair sends Soames into an obsessive rage and precipitates family conflicts that span generations. Irene is more than a love object; she is modernity. The Forsytes long for her to perk up their tired blood, but she proves to be too much, and too good, for them...
Wetlaufer resigned in April after The Wall Street Journal reported that the Review cancelled her story about former General Electric CEO Jack Welch because of allegations that the two had an affair...