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DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, Finnish artist and author whose hippo-like trolls, the Moomins, delighted postwar readers and whose books were translated into 35 languages; in Helsinki. She got the original idea during the Nazi rise to power; seeing a quote from Immanuel Kant on a wall, she scribbled cant! and drew an ugly troll next to it. She wanted to write fairy tales but felt princesses were inappropriate to such bleak times. The Guardian called her Moomins "among the greatest creations of children's literature...
...DIED. TOVE JANSSON, 86, the creator of Finland's beloved Moomin trolls; in Helsinki. Jansson wrote and illustrated the original Moomin books, whose tales of the eccentric, hippo-like creatures spawned comic strips, cartoon series and even theme parks. She is also celebrated for her illustrations in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and in an edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. DIED. JOAN SIMS, 71, the British queen of the double entendre; in London. Best remembered for the bawdy, farcical Carry On series of comedy films, she also had a successful stage and TV career. DIED...
...this was only the beginning of the outrage. The plaintiff companies asked the federal judge to apply U.S. law to the two programmers, Matthew Skala of Canada and Eddie Jansson of Sweden, even though the court plainly had no jurisdiction over the defendants or their activities. They also sought orders from the U.S. judge requiring Internet service providers in Canada and Sweden to suppress Skala and Jansson's websites, even though those service providers did no business in Massachusetts or anywhere else in the U.S. and were also not subject to the jurisdiction of an American federal court...
...bullying worked. The foreign service providers "cooperated," shutting down the programmers' websites. Skala and Jansson surrendered within days, giving Microsystems and Mattel all rights in their program, thus allowing it to be suppressed. Mattel is now seeking to have the judge in Massachusetts prohibit--in contempt of the injunction Skala and Jansson agreed to--any website in the world from distributing the information Skala and Jansson developed concerning Cyberpatrol...
...Molitor's loyalty is somewhat more mystifying. In 1986 Alex was dating schoolmate Molitor; it was her family's Jeep he was driving the night of the alleged rape. Although he returned from his exile with a Swedish woman, Elisabet Jansson, whom he described as his fiance, Jansson is gone and Kelly and Molitor are again romantically involved. Courtroom observers can be heard whispering, "What does she see in him?" They might well wonder: just before the trial the couple was in a car wreck, in Amy's car. Kelly, out on bond and late for his curfew, overturned...