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...spectacular beaches? The velvety wine? The exchange rate? Something compelling seems to lure fugitives from around the world to the South African city of Cape Town. Last week police in the seaside metropolis arrested American fugitives Craig Michael Pritchert, 40, and Nova Ester Guthrie, 30, wanted by the FBI for a series of bank heists staged across the American West in the mid-1990s. U.S. officials say Guthrie and Pritchert--a former college baseball star who turned to crime after he felt he had been eclipsed by his teammate and future big-league slugger Barry Bonds--spent much...
...whom photographers, designers and editors seek out to perfect the pictures--and the people--who appear in fashion magazines. Dangin is founder and head of Box Studios in New York City, the fashion world's most sought-after photo-retouching firm. As the essential "postproduction" man for Annie Leibovitz, Craig McDean and other top-tier photographers, Dangin draws out possibilities within the negative after the picture is snapped. Not incidentally, he also improves any skimpy eyebrows, plump thighs or detectable pores. Whatever Kate Hudson or Gwen Stefani or Nicole Kidman might look like in fact, what she looks like...
...about a sensitive, artistic, vegetarian, teenage boy who finds love with a sensitive, artistic, vegetarian, teenage girl. That is, it should be insufferable. Instead it is a rarity: a first-love story so well remembered and honest that it reminds you what falling in love feels like. The narrator, Craig Thompson, grows up in rural Wisconsin in a devout Christian family. Craig's childhood is one long bout of fear--of bullies, hell, the baby-sitter who molests him and his little brother--until, at a Christian winter camp, Craig meets Raina, a doe-eyed outsider from a troubled family...
Blankets' charm and strength are that, like a love-sick teenager, the book is not embarrassed to be earnest about either Craig and Raina's romance or their religion (in one panel, hormone-drunk Craig sees Raina as a vision from Song of Solomon). As their affair gets complicated, so does the novel, becoming a bittersweet meditation on family, faith, loss and memory...
Fugitives in Fun City SOUTH AFRICA On the lam? consider hiding out on the beaches of Cape Town - plenty of other fugitives do. Last week police in the South African metropolis arrested Americans Craig Michael Pritchert, 40, and Nova Ester Guthrie, 30, wanted by the fbi for a series of bank heists staged across the American West in the mid-'90s. U.S. officials say Guthrie and Pritchert spent much of the $500,000 they allegedly had stolen on day trading and traveling the world. The couple moved to Cape Town three years ago, where Guthrie...