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DIED. TED ROSS, 68, stage and screen actor who won a Tony Award for his 1975 portrayal of the Cowardly Lion in The Wiz; of complications from a stroke; in Dayton, Ohio...
...physical biochemist who helped discover radioactive carbon 14, which was crucial to understanding basic chemical processes; in Santa Barbara, Calif. After being shunned by the scientific community amid rumors that he had leaked atom-bomb secrets to the Soviets, he won belated recognition in 1996, receiving the Enrico Fermi Award for lifetime achievement...
...vacation and a return to toil for millions of workers, students and politicians. For the nation's publishing industry, by contrast, the September rentrée littéraire is a period of excitement and expectation, holding the promise of success and sales for some, acclaim and awards for others. This year has brought a new high of activity, with the first of nearly 700 new titles already flooding bookshops - and taxing the capacity of the book-buying public to absorb them all. Literary pride has long been central to France's notion of an exception culturelle. While the French...
...other side of the ball, junior linebacker Dante Balestracci is to the defense what Rose and Morris are to the offense. After winning the Ivy League Rookie of the Year award his freshman season, Balestracci continued to dominate league foes last season, earning himself unanimous All-Ivy First Team recognition...
...Feinberg issued his first award, $1.04 million to the family of an unmarried recent college graduate who earned $60,000 a year and died at the World Trade Center. The family's attorney, Roberta Gordon, said that her clients were not happy. They could never be happy. But they thought that Feinberg's award was "eminently fair." One down, 3,199 cases...