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...awarded the commander level of the Order of the British Empire...
...British novelist Hilary Mantel snapped up the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction on Oct. 6 for her novel Wolf Hall, a fictionalization of the life of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to Henry VIII, during the King's attempts to produce a male heir to his throne. Mantel's win was not a surprise; bookmakers considered Wolf Hall the heaviest favorite in years. Winning the Booker Prize carries with it a ?50,000 prize and historically catapults the title to the top of best-seller lists worldwide. This is Mantel's first time winning the award, which is given annually...
...more, Sea the Stars' two-length victory at Longchamp was his sixth in Europe's tough Group One races in as many months. The horse, says Frankie Dettori, a leading jockey who trailed Sea the Stars in the Arc, is "in a class of his own." (See pictures of British horse racing...
...British media-law expert Razi Mireskandari, whose firm Simon Muirhead & Burton has successfully defended the publication of sexually explicit photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe in the U.K., says Tate Modern would be unlikely to lose an obscenity case. The U.K.'s Obscene Publications Act defines as "obscene material" anything that would "tend to deprave and corrupt" the public. "That doesn't mean just 'upset or put off,' " says Mireskandari. But, he notes, the U.K.'s Protection of Children Act might come into play. "The key tests would be whether the child is posed provocatively, whether there was an element of lewdness...
...British authorities seem to be increasingly cautious when it comes to photographs of kids. Two years ago, police seized a photograph by Nan Goldin of two young girls belly dancing in the nude. The work, which six years earlier had been judged decent by the Crown Prosecution Service, was part of a set owned by Elton John and was on display in a northeastern England gallery. The CPS once again cleared the image, saying that standards of propriety had not changed significantly since its last judgment. (Read "Elton John Rock's Captain Fantastic...