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...acknowledged leader is Opera Theater of St. Louis. In just six seasons, Richard Gaddes, 39, the company's British-born general director, has made opera flourish in a city where past efforts had mostly been failures...
...workers." Asked whether his award would affect the way in which his country is ruled, he replied: "I don't know." Others were less pessimistic. "It will restrain those who brutalize, and end indifference," said José Westerkamp, a fellow Argentine civil rights activist. Added Robert Cox, the British-born former editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, who is currently a Nieman Fellow at Harvard: "Here is an ordinary person showing that one man can do an enormous amount. It's like David being equipped with armor, not just a slingshot. This is one of the few cases...
DIED. Princess Anne of Denmark, 62, British-born wife of Prince George and cousin of England's Queen Elizabeth II; of a heart attack; in London. Born Anne Bowes-Lyon, she married Prince George, the Danish military attaché in London and a distant cousin of Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, in 1950, after the dissolution of her marriage to Lord Anson. She and Anson had a daughter and a son, Photographer Patrick Lichfield...
...left foot of British-born Bott, a transfer from the University of Indiana and Harvard's star kicker, accounted for all the Crimson scoring in a game without any four-point tries (the rugby equivalent of a touchdown). The players attributed the lack of tries to the narrow field which limited the maneuverability of both teams' backs. The squad normally plays its games at Soldiers Field...
...rock star he created Ziggy Stardust, the orange-haired founder of bisexual chic. In his 1976 film debut, he played Thomas Jerome Newton, the cat-eyed extraterrestrial of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Now, British-born David Bowie, onetime idol of the glitter set, has come in for a landing on the legitimate stage. His typically freakish role; John Merrick, the deformed central figure in that Broadway hit The Elephant Man, which opens in Denver this week. Says Bowie of his assorted personas: "It looks like I'm always going to have a physical or psychological limp...