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DIED. ANATOLI RYBAKOV, 87, Russian author; in New York City. Rybakov started writing stories part time while driving a truck. His children's book The Dirk, published in 1950, was an immediate success and admired by Stalin. On the other hand, it took years for him to get his epic novel Children of the Arbat published. When the work--which freely discusses Stalin's terrors--finally appeared in 1986, it sold more than 1 million copies in the Soviet Union...
...maybe two or three requests a semester," said History and Literature Lecturer Dirk M. Killen '82, who is also the senior tutor in Pforzheimer House...
...Brother Dirk Ziff, a musician who played guitar in Carly Simon's band and is active in the fund, also happened to be one of the largest--if not the largest--single contributors to the Democratic Party and President Clinton's re-election campaign in 1996. Ziff, one of those invited to sleep over in the White House, gave $410,000 to the Democrats...
Conor Killen, two-year-old son of Dirk Killen '82, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Pforzheimer House, and tutor Kristin Daly '89, will dress as Batman this year, combining holiday fashion and function...
...quickly into the realm of patient care. Kristen's gene mutation was diagnosed in a Duke laboratory run by Andrew Futreal, a researcher who had a hand in the discovery of one breast cancer-susceptibility gene--known as BRCA1--and who co-discovered a second, BRCA2. Her doctor is Dirk Iglehart, a surgeon who also runs a large tumor biology laboratory. The genetic counselor, Shelly Clark, advises patients on the far-reaching effects of such lethal genes...