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...MARRIED. ERIC CLAPTON, 56, British rock-'n'-roll legend, to American graphic artist Melia McEnery, 25, the mother of their six-month-old daughter, Julie Rose; in Ripley, southern England. It was a surprise ceremony for the guests, who thought they were attending the child's baptism. This is the guitarist's second marriage: he divorced Patti Boyd, whom he had "stolen" from George Harrison, in 1988. DIED. JULIA PHILLIPS, 57, Oscar-winning producer of The Sting and Taxi Driver and author of the New York Times bestseller You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again; in Los Angeles...
...Jerusalem, Matt Rees reported on the doings of wall Street, where battles are conducted in boardrooms and raids mean speedy acquisition of a targeted company's stock. But just as Rees was getting used to the demands of his new job as Jerusalem bureau chief, he had a baptism by fire as Israel and the Palestinian territories slid deeper into their worst cycle of bloodshed since the 1987-93 intifadeh. "I've been here since 1996," says the Welsh-born Rees, 33. "While there have been occasional flare-ups in that time, this is certainly the biggest wave of violence...
...rite of baptism for the dead, ancestors are posthumously given a physical baptism by water...
...approach, though, does not result in fairy tales. Fire and the Baptism, while including ghosts and spirits, follows the lives of two kidnapping victims, one black, one white. In A Visitation of Spirits, the teenage Horace Cross attempts to transform himself into a bird to escape the ostracism he will face if his homosexuality is exposed in his religious community. Instead he unleashes an army of demons that haunt him as he is haunted by what he sees as his sin. It is with Horace that Kenan claims the most affinity, and his plight seems a supernatural rendering of Kenan...
Twain placed Huck and Jim on the river because the river was time, motion, beauty, baptism and violence, but mainly because one could not see around the bend. Civilizations are formed by bends in the river--the Nile, Congo, Thames, Yangtze--a twist of the land, water and fate that, by making it impossible to see what comes next, raises hopes of the possibility of everything...