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...colorful British historian and oenophile; in Cambridge, England. A working-class boy who fell in love with history and became a prolific author of popular books on the Renaissance and the British monarchy, he also produced more scholarly works. He was considered the resident, somewhat cantankerous genius of Christ's College, Cambridge, where he spent his entire academic career...
...which ranged from paintings that hung in the Library of Congress to album covers for rock bands like R.E.M. and Talking Heads, to spread his evangelical Christian message. DIED. JOHN PLUMB, 90, natty British historian of the 18th century and best-selling author; in Cambridge. A former master of Christ's College, Cambridge, Plumb was an influential teacher who cultivated a generation of talented British historians. A prolific writer, Plumb had 23 books published between 1950 and 1989, many aimed at a popular audience. He was knighted in 1982. CONVICTED. LI JIZHOU, of accepting bribes from smugglers; in Beijing. Jizhou...
...came back to the Catholic Church, which I abandoned three years after my mother died. I didn't believe in God or Jesus Christ then. But in New Orleans, close to my roots and my mother, I gradually realized that I did believe, that I wanted to go back to communion, to be a member again. So I did partake of the banquet. In that year, because we had not been married with the Catholic sacrament, Stan and I were remarried in my parish church. It was one of the happiest days of my life...
...Thrilla' in Manila" bout against Muhammad Ali. DIED. ALEXANDRE BYIDI-AWALA, 69, one of Africa's best-known authors; in Douala, Cameroon. Under the nom de plume Mongo Beti, he wrote novels and essays denouncing colonization and its effects on African societies. Beti's most popular work, The Poor Christ of Bomba, was published in 1956. DIED. NIE MINZHI, 71, longtime activist and founder in 1998 of the outlawed China Democracy Party; after a stroke in a reform camp in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Last year the Chinese government sentenced Nie to one year of labor reform for publishing...
...debates, and Christians have warred as eagerly as Muslims—just ask Pope Urban and his Crusaders. But going back to the beginning of Islam, one finds Muhammed himself—the model Muslim, against whose standard all the faithful must be judged. And where Christianity has a Christ who turns the other cheek and gives himself over to be crucified, Islam has a Prophet who makes war—in self-defense, arguably, but with a glad heart, a warlike spirit and a knowledge that Allah is on his side. It is that example, that spirit...