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...Gibson and Keanu Reeves. The latest is Ralph Fiennes, who stars in a production that has traveled from London's Almeida Theatre Company to Broadway. Fiennes, 32, is known primarily as a movie actor (he played the unforgettable chief villain -- in a world overrun by villainy -- of Schindler's List, and the fair-haired, clay-footed young scholar, Charles Van Doren, of Quiz Show), but his roots are in theater, and he handles Shakespeare's great role with a commanding blend of intelligence and ardor...
Novelists reveal themselves as performers, or shamans, or unloved children, or observers of bugs through microscopes. The Australian writer Thomas Keneally is a builder, a gifted, painstaking maker of books. After 20 novels, including Schindler's List and A Victim of the Aurora, a reader imagines him rummaging through his barn for old beams and bricks stored years before and never used. Stories, perhaps, told by his grandparents, who were storekeepers in Australia's Macleay River Valley. He sorts the tales, considers which can still bear weight, begins to sketch a plan for A River Town (Doubleday; 324 pages...
...persistent shortage of organs from human donors has motivated some researchers to reconsider the possibility of transplants from animals. In the U.S. alone, there are 40,000 people on the national transplant waiting list and only 5,000 donors a year. As a result, about one-fifth of the people who need a heart transplant, for example, die before one becomes available...
Hsieh said he was motivated to start a study group over the Internet after receiving a long list of 90 identification-style questions that students in the class were supposed to answer as part of their pre-exam preparation...
Participants were asked to sign up for the study group over e-mail. Hsieh offered to do all the legwork: assigning and compiling completed identifications and e-mailing the final list to each member of the group...