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...four men who met at London's King's Cross railway station must have looked ordinary enough to the thousands of commuters rushing to work on the morning of July 7. Three were British-born - a 30-year-old grade-school teacher with a baby daughter and a reputation for devotion to his learning-disabled students; an 18-year-old described by friends as a "gentle giant," dressed that morning like the universal teenager, in denims and a sloppy jacket; a 22-year-old cricket fan who worked in his family's fish-and-chip shop in Leeds. The fourth...
...British authorities were also pursuing a British-born Pakistani who entered England through a Channel port two weeks before the blasts, despite being on a security watch list as a suspected al-Qaeda member. London police said there was nothing yet to link him to the plot, but a Pakistani official told Time that two British investigators traveled to Islamabad last week to check on his contacts and whether he went to the frontier region where Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, may be hiding. Working with Britain and Saudi Arabia, the U.S. froze bank accounts...
DIED. Christopher Isherwood, 81, British-born author whose fiction and nonfiction blended his real experiences with imagined ones, most notably in Goodbye to Berlin, his 1939 short-story collection about expatriates in decadent pre-Nazi Germany, which was adapted as I Am a Camera, a 1951 play and 1955 movie, and Cabaret, a 1966 Broadway musical and 1972 movie; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Always a rebel, he went to Berlin in 1929 to sample its illicit pleasures, as well as to visit his lifelong friend and sometime lover, W. H. Auden. An immigrant...
...Lowe ’05 knows how to get himself noticed. Whether touring dining halls to promote his new band or posing for H-Bomb in black leather chaps and red chili pepper lights, the 27-year-old British-born senior is always on, according to his closest friends...
...Washington Home, a last stopping place for the sick and the elderly, Diana stopped to chat with about 40 of the wheelchair-bound residents. She patted spotted hands and spoke directly into hard-of-hearing ears. It was old hat to 95-year-old British-born Letitia Whitty: "When I was 6 1/2, my father took me to the streets to see Queen Victoria passing by. I wouldn't wave at that ugly old woman." She did, however, talk animatedly with a pretty young one about English gardens. For nearly an hour, these faltering men and women in the shadow...