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...Observer was first published in September 1987 by Arthur L. Carter, a former Wall Street executive who had previously bought and sold the liberal weekly The Nation. Noted for its distinctive pink newsprint, the Observer made a name for itself by chronicling the city’s business elite...
...heroine she is to her readers; Gina, a devoted Potter fan, had been had counting the days to the reading, and it was plainly the chance to see Rowling in the flesh that had attracted her to the event. I don't think I ever felt that way about Arthur Ransome, the wonderful British children's author of the 1930s and 1940s whose books I once devoured with the same passion Gina now displays. But then, the whole way in which one consumes and appreciates children's literature has changed since I was a child. Gina spent much...
...DIED. Arthur Haggerty, 74, former Army captain who parlayed his military credentials and tough-love tactics into a career as the go-to dog trainer for America's élite; of cancer; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A favorite of David Letterman's--Haggerty appeared on his show more than 20 times--he ran Captain Haggerty's School for Dogs, whose graduates performed on TV soaps and in 150 films and worked as bomb sniffers and emergency rescuers...
...ARTHUR BALFOUR AND ROBERT CECIL Ever heard the saying "Bob's your uncle"? It means "no problem" and refers to Cecil, a Victorian Prime Minister who named Balfour, his nephew, to a series of Cabinet posts...
...rich countries can be caught off-guard?witness Hurricane Katrina. Indonesia, with its 54,716 km of often densely populated and earthquake-prone coastline, is particularly exposed to the threat of local tsunamis. "There need to be sirens or SMS messages on cell phones or even Internet warnings," says Arthur Lerner-Lam, director of the Center for Hazards and Risk Research at Columbia University. "The public has to be aware of what to do, and that's education." In Indonesia, such educational programs are only in place on Sumatra, which bore the brunt of the 2004 tsunami, and even there...