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...DIED. HUGH TREVOR-ROPER, 89, brilliant, cranky British historian; of cancer; in Oxford, England. The Last Days of Hitler, his 1947 best seller, which described a confused, deluded hitler, was based on Trevor-Roper's investigation as a wartime member of the BRITISH Secret Intelligence Service. In 1983 his reputation was tarnished after he authenticated 60 volumes of what turned out to be forged Hitler "diaries...
...Richard Gere is also a solid bet for a nod. The final two slots will be split between four contenders: The Pianist’s Adrien Brody, Adaptation’s Nicolas Cage, The Quiet American’s Michael Caine and About a Boy’s Hugh Grant; the comparative prestige of Brody’s and Cage’s pictures give them the edge for the spots...
Barker’s wife Elizabeth died in 1997. In addition to James R. Barker and Margaret B. Clark, he is survived by his second wife, Frances Salant Barker; son James W. B. Barker ’69; daughter Ann S. Barker; a sister, Cecily B. Finley; a brother, Hugh Barker; and five grandchildren...
...Economics. But the real test of Gilchrist's political smarts will be whether he knows how to quit when he's ahead. Public sympathy is not an inexhaustible reserve; post-strike polls showed most people were opposed to another walkout. - By Aparisim Ghosh. With reporting by Amanda Bower and Hugh Porter/London CHECHNYA A Guerrilla's Last Stand They slipped into Chechnya last week, a group of Russian commandos from the secretive Alpha antiterrorist unit, the same ?lite troops that stormed the Moscow theater last month. Their number is not known, but their mission is: to kill Shamil Basayev, the guerrilla...
...otters - once plentiful before being driven into smaller remote coastal areas - are returning to former habitats in greater numbers, thanks in part to cleaner rivers and the reduced use of pesticides. With so much dire environmental news these days, such glimmers of hope are worth celebrating - Hugh Porter...