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Last week's murder of South African reggae star Lucky Dube, 43, in a failed carjacking should finally bury the misconception that the country's crime problem is a black-on-white issue. Dube, last Friday, was shot while dropping off his two teenage children at his brother's house in Rossettenville, near downtown Johannesburg. The children survived unharmed...
...Still, despite losing, the PIS did manage to increase its share of the vote to 30% on Sunday as opposed to 26% in 2005 as it soaked up support from smaller right-wing groupings. Jaroslaw Kaczysnki, conceding defeat, said he would pursue a vigorous opposition. His brother Lech will stay on until 2010 as President, a post that carries considerable influence on foreign affairs. "We shall keep track of [the PO's] promises", the outgoing Prime Minister said. "I repeat, we shall account for everything that was said." Poland has new leaders and, in all likelihood, a more stable government...
...Early on, Steichen recognized the value of networking. He started his Great Men series in the early 1900s and continued doing portraits of the likes of J. Pierpont Morgan, Richard Strauss, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill for much of his life. It didn't hurt his reputation that his brother-in-law, the well-known poet Carl Sandburg, published a biography, Steichen the Photographer, in 1929. In later years, Steichen's portraits tended toward show-business types like Gloria Swanson, mysterious behind a layer of lace, and W.C. Fields, hamming it up in his pajamas in one of the exhibition...
...Harvard, as he entered the game for a slightly injured Jeff Terrell and ran five times for 27 yards in his lone drive on the way to a crucial first-half touchdown.The Crimson secondary, meanwhile, will face the daunting task of containing Tigers wideouts Adam Berry—twin brother of junior cornerback Andrew on the other side of the field—Will Thanheiser and Brendan Circle, a first team All-Ivy selection last season. Circle is averaging 19.3 yards per catch and 73.4 yards per game this season, near the top of the league in each category.The combination...
...game of arranging the most interesting, improbable, imaginary conversation among American entertainers, you could do worse than the one that took place in midtown Manhattan earlier this month. The participants were the filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, known for smart, stylish and slightly silly movies like Fargo and O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and the novelist Cormac McCarthy, who won the National Book Award for All the Pretty Horses and the Pulitzer Prize for The Road. If it were a reality show it would be called Eccentric Genius Island...