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British novelist Hilary Mantel snapped up the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction on Oct. 6 for her novel Wolf Hall, a fictionalization of the life of Thomas Cromwell, adviser to Henry VIII, during the King's attempts to produce a male heir to his throne. Mantel's win was not a surprise; bookmakers considered Wolf Hall the heaviest favorite in years. Winning the Booker Prize carries with it a ?50,000 prize and historically catapults the title to the top of best-seller lists worldwide. This is Mantel's first time winning the award, which is given annually...
...TERESA KING, who on Sept. 22 became the first woman to be named the top drill sergeant for the U.S. Army...
...claimed more than a dozen victims in September; this year's death toll in the restive region has already reached around 350 and, if the pace of killings continues, the 2009 count will top last year's figure. Little wonder, then, that the country's revered 81-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej - whose hospitalization on Sept. 19 for fever and fatigue only added to Thailand's overall sense of unease - cautioned in August that if national unity is not restored, the kingdom could "collapse." (See pictures of the Thai protests...
...through Thai courts has increased. Shortly after Abhisit told TIME that "there has been an improvement [although] there may have been one or two cases which somehow went off the radar," a Thai political activist named Daranee Charnchoengsilpakul was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for insulting Thailand's King and Queen during a series of public speeches...
Throughout his life, he completed projects such as the renovation of the Harvard Club of New York City, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta, and the Harvard Institutes of Medicine building in Cambridge...