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According to a bbc poll Gilmour cites, Kipling's famous ode to self-improvement, If, remains Britain's favorite poem. His verse and stories about the British in India still largely determine how the Brits think of that era. His lifelong interest in the country's military transformed its reputation. His home in Sussex has become a national shrine. More subtly, Kipling - the least pretentious of men and ever supportive of the underdog - had a huge and permanent influence in closing the gap in Britain between "high" and "popular" culture...
...year-old Edward A. Gargan of Boston went to jail for two years because he refused to fight in Vietnam: he felt America's war there was unjust. Thus began a lifelong attachment to a continent which, at that time, he had not even seen. Gargan would go on to spend 15 years traversing Asia as a New York Times correspondent, covering stories from India to China. He says he wrote his meandering travelogue The River's Tale: A Year on the Mekong (Knopf; 322 pages) for two reasons: to fill in some of the blanks from a career...
...week 'N Sync's LANCE BASS reported that he was negotiating to visit the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket, an idea hatched by the Amsterdam-based MirCorp. When MirCorp approached Bass, he enthusiastically embraced the proposal, issuing a statement saying he was "looking forward to completing this lifelong dream." But by week's end the Russian space agency said it was not MirCorp's prerogative to book passengers aboard its rockets. Undeterred, MirCorp vice chairman Walt Anderson said he remains "confident" that Bass will nab a seat. Perhaps until we know for certain, NASA should consider recruiting...
...grace, a surer shot at salvation, maybe a miraculous cure for an illness. But the Hajj is obligatory: it must be performed at least once by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford it. (Borrowing money to come is prohibited, although many do.) Having performed the Hajj becomes a lifelong distinction celebrated with an honorific: I can now call myself Hajji Maseeh Rahman. And the Hajj is done en masse during one five-day period in the final month of the Islamic lunar calendar. Two million faithful have come to Mecca this year from virtually everywhere - Bosnia, the Ivory Coast...
...show's final episode. DIED. JOHANNES CORNELIS PRINCEN, 76, a former Dutch colonial soldier who became one of Indonesia's leading human rights activists; in Jakarta. Princen deserted the Dutch army in 1948 and joined the guerrillas fighting for Indonesia's independence. Once that was achieved, he became a lifelong advocate for persecuted opponents of the country's government, and was jailed several times on charges of organizing illegal political protests during the military-backed rule of President Suharto. DEATH REPORTED. Of JONAS SAVIMBI, 67, veteran leader of Angolan rebel group unita, killed in a gun battle with government troops...