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DIED. JOHN FOWLES, 79, British author of such popular, critically acclaimed novels as The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman; in Lyme Regis, England. Swayed by Sartre and Camus, Fowles explored existential themes of obsession, uncertainty and free will, stretching the limits of literary form (he was a fan of multiple endings) and dreaming scenes into existence (Woman, the Victorian love saga that became a hit film starring Meryl Streep, started with his recurring dream of a woman on a pier). Uneasy with his commercial success, he lived largely as a recluse, once saying he could never...
...pulling down corrugated shutters and tugging on the padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This is hurting both of us," says port tax collector Karamo Marong, counting out a thin clump of sweaty bills that is his day's meager haul. "And it's ordinary people who suffer." At issue is not just bureaucracy but the crazy quilt of borders stitched across the continent by Europe's colonial powers during the scramble for Africa...
...tainted-goods charges are not unique to the Getty. For decades, ancient artifacts have been illicitly dug up and sold to see-no-evil museums. But the Getty was a notoriously aggressive collector, and some in the art world believe that its hunger and spending habits encouraged looting and theft. Ironically, True was responsible in 1995 for the Getty's adopting a strict policy of buying only well-documented pieces. "She extricated the museum from an ethical morass," says University of Virginia professor of art history Malcolm Bell. "It's extremely sad that the one person who understood that...
Tchou played the role of garbage collector when he found the ball from 10 yards away and knocked it into the back of the net for the unassisted goal...
What they're searching for is the shtetl from which Jonathan's grandfather escaped, and it becomes increasingly clear that it was wiped out a half-century earlier by the Nazis. They find, at last, one survivor, Lista (Laryssa Lauret), who is also a collector but on a grander scale than Jonathan can imagine. Her aim is to keep alive the memory of the entire wiped-out village by hoarding its detritus. There is, as it turns out, one other survivor, whose identity should probably not be revealed here. Alas, the tragic dimensions of Everything Is Illuminated do not quite...