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DIED. SIR HARDY AMIES, 93, Savile Row designer who clothed Queen Elizabeth for four decades; in Langford, England. London's most successful couturier (with model Faraday, above), he was a self-described snob who disdained strapless gowns and resisted critics who would have the Queen look more chic, insisting her understated style suited her. "I'm for elitism and its survival," he said...
Heredity tells the story of Elizabeth Mann, a young woman working in London on a travel guide assignment, who discovers the skeleton of Jonathan Wild, a famous 18th century criminal, in an obscure museum. With the help of her lover, an infertility specialist, Elizabeth and the reader become engrossed in Wild’s mysterious life. Eventually, Elizabeth decides to take steps to bring the man closer to modernity that anyone ever thought possible...
...Elizabeth is actually based on a Let’s Go writer,” she says. “Like her, I was a rather irresponsible researcher...
...their homes or playgrounds and then murdered or held for ransom), and 50 to 150 are murdered. Officials expect this year's total number to dip to near 100, hopefully dragging down the murder rate accordingly. And despite what you might reasonably think after hearing the terrible stories of Elizabeth Smart (who was returned safely home more than nine months after her abduction) and Samantha Runnion, the specter of kidnapping by strangers should not be parents' primary concern; parents themselves perpetrate more than 98 percent of all kidnappings, according to the DOJ. While about 700,000 missing children reports were...
...very rare happy ending to a months-long kidnapping saga: Elizabeth Smart returned home Wednesday, nine months after being abducted from her bedroom in the middle of the night. Edward Smart, her father, fought back tears of joy as he faced the media, issuing an impassioned plea for the U.S. House of Representatives to pass mandate a national "Amber Alert" system - the response program the Smarts credit with Elizabeth's safe return. Elizabeth's story will add fuel to the debate already raging over the program...