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DIED. Barbara Epstein, 77, literary lion who as a founder and co-editor of the New York Review of Books worked with--and in many cases, befriended--writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Desmond Tutu, Václav Havel and Alison Lurie; in New York City. Epstein was a junior editor at Doubleday when she helped produce Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl in 1952. During a 1963 newspaper strike, she helped launch the Review with her then husband Jason Epstein and shared, with Robert Silvers, responsibility of editing it for the next 43 years. Her sharp pencil...
...Kerouac in the early sixties when he read at Lowell House. That was quite a night. I got into the reading (I was late) through the persuasions of Desmond O’Grady. He haunted the Grolier when he was drunk. When he was sober, he was incredible, and every scene was a movie. He worked with William Alfred, the playwright and poet. To most of us, he was the stereotypical wild Irish poet who strode through the world bringing an almost magical power. Much later on, I met James Merrill and attended his reading of the first portion...
...DIED. Desmond Dekker, 64, Kingston welder turned rocker who introduced ska and reggae to the world beyond Jamaica, scoring a Top 10 single in both the U.S. and England with his 1968 song Israelites; of an apparent heart attack in Surrey, England. Before most people had heard of Bob Marley, Dekker chronicled Jamaican street life in songs like Rude Boy Train; 007 (Shanty Town), which appeared on the sound track to the film The Harder They Come...
...Lane wrote in his e-mail. “Again, we are both sorry for our part in this incident and how much negative attention it has brought upon our football team.” The suspensions are the first since Russell G. Schober ’08 and Desmond J. Bryant ’08 were told that they would sit out the 2005 season for violating team rules last year. The two eventually returned for the Crimson’s final two games of the season. According to Murphy, the first-hand accounts of the most recent incident...
...initially refusing to recognize its authority before pleading not guilty, it marked the first phase in the trial of one of Africa's most wanted men. "The people of Sierra Leone have been waiting patiently for three years to see the accused finally face the trial chamber," said prosecutor Desmond de Silva. "Many voices have come together to uphold the rule of law and justice. The voice of the people of Sierra Leone was the loudest and I commend them for their courage, conviction and persistence." But for all the applause, Taylor's first day in a Freetown court...