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Uganda’s murderous Idi Amin found the idea of an African economy run by non-blacks so offensive that he simply had everyone of Asian descent deported during his reign in the ’70s—a move that was permissible under the international community’s watch (not that Idi Amin cared) in the still-gleeful days of independence. Tanzania, as a result, got even more Indian emigres, making them seem all the more ubiquitous in a place where homegrown industry is scarce and commerce, through the market or small café, is highly...
DIED. PAUL KLEBNIKOV, 41, editor of Forbes Russia and an investigative journalist; of gunshot wounds inflicted by an unknown assailant as he left his office in Moscow; the shooting had the hallmarks of a contract hit. A New Yorker of Russian descent, Klebnikov won notoriety in Russia in the late '90s for his writings on corruption and his coverage of controversial businessman and politician Boris Berezovsky...
...spacecraft will penetrate that atmosphere with radar and a free-flying 705-lb. conical probe (the Huygens half of the Cassini-Huygens tandem), scheduled to plunge into the Titanian skies on Jan. 14, 2005. Huygens will make a 2 1/2-hr. parachute descent, transmitting data all the way. When it touches down, having made the most distant landing ever by an earthly probe, it is expected to survive for no more than half an hour. Cassini, designed to live much longer, should be beaming back data until...
...probe's cameras and instruments operate both during descent and on the ground...
...naive, in Kings Row. The film touches, daintily, on sexually possessive fathers, insane children, vindictive doctors, the hatred of the rich for the poor and, in the relationship of Reagan's character Drake McHugh and his friend Parris (Robert Cummings), a hint of homoeroticism. Reagan flawlessly navigates Drake's descent from rube bonhomie to maturing resolve to blackest despair, then up to a final splash of sunlight. Reagan considered the film his top accomplishment and never tired of screening it. In 1948 Wyman sued for divorce, charging extreme mental cruelty. But she had another complaint: "I just couldn't stand...