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DIED. ROSEMARY VEREY, 82, revered British garden designer and author, whose four-acre garden at Barnsley House in Gloucestershire draws 30,000 admirers yearly; in London. With her sophisticated sensibilities and keen eye for color, Verey was an inspiration to horticulturists the world over. She introduced to the U.S. such elements as the ornamental vegetable garden, and designed plantings for the likes of Prince Charles and Elton John...
...song Hall of Fame, from his forthcoming album Gravitational Forces, Texas singer-songwriter Robert Earl Keen croons, "My songs don't belong on Top 40 radio/I'll keep the old back 40 for my home." The lyrics could easily serve as the slogan of Lost Highway, a new record label that features singer-songwriters like Keen, Lucinda Williams and newcomer Ryan Adams--performers who are too cool for country radio, too country for pop and too headstrong to change their ways. The critically acclaimed Williams, whose new CD, Essence, comes out on Lost Highway this week, calls the label...
...team then traveled to Las Vegas at the beginning of December for the Cliff-Keen Invitational, where it faced some of the best wrestling programs in the nation. The tournament was highlighted by Volpe's outstanding wrestling and his strong seventh-place finish...
...compromise rather than simply pretending it wasn't happening. He had rejected terrorism on principle: his soldiers were always under orders to avoid attacking civilians, even when their unarmed supporters on the ground were being massacred by the apartheid regime. And the South African leader also always displayed a keen understanding of his adversary's motivations and concerns, which gave him the ability both to read their tactics and articulate positions that could assuage their fears...
This was not the road McMullen intended to travel. Growing up, he wanted to be an artist or a rock star. While still harboring the musician's dream, he started to work for a company making Halloween masks. A keen sculptor, he began to shape life-size figures out of silicone. "Most sculpture is like 500 pounds of rock. Once you get it, there isn't much you can do with it," he says, squinting through his constant companion cloud of cigarette smoke. "I wanted to make sculpture that could interact with people." And, as he discovered, people wanted...