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...strike aimed at forcing Chávez to step down has entered its second month. MEANWHILE Birthday Toast Fans of J.R.R. Tolkien from around the world celebrated what would have been the author's 111th birthday on Jan. 3. The number is especially significant to devotees of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, as the hobbit Bilbo Baggins is seen in the first installment, The Fellowship of the Ring, holding a party for his own "eleventy-first" birthday. Tolkien, who died aged 81 in 1973, described the milestone as "a rather curious number and a very respectable...
...divorced. She rebounded smartly, collecting a circle of posh friends--including Peter Sellers, with whom she spent long evenings around the piano with a cigarette holder and cocktail shaker--and making a second home on the Caribbean island of Mustique. A 1960 marriage to photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, later Lord Snowdon, ended in divorce in 1978. But before it did, she carried on a five-year caprice with landscape gardener Roddy Llewellyn, who was 17 years younger. The British press was inflamed. Some years later, Princess Diana picked up the torch. --By Richard Lacayo...
...compelling and perhaps least recognized reason is that it gives the reader a truly flexible medium in which to explore larger-than-life issues. The best fantasy is about much more than good vs. evil, the expression of magic or nostalgia for a simpler time. The greatness of The Lord of the Rings is in its exploration of the consequences of a great task that falls to an unwilling and unlikely recipient and the expression of inner strength and personal transformation that result. Tolkien succeeds by telling a tale that is as much about the inner person as the outer...
Your story said that "on the political-correctness meter, The Lord of the Rings is radioactive," and asked, "Where are the women?" There may not be many women in Tolkien's fantasy world, but the few he depicts are strong and courageous--equal to or better than the men they interact with. The trilogy is a great form of escapism for women and men, and I would hate that people thought that it is misogynistic in any way. CHRIS BLAND Dallas...
...RESIGNED. CHRISTOPHER GENT, 54, cricket-loving chief executive of Britain's Vodafone Group who rode the telecom boom and transformed the small FTSE company into the world's leading mobile-phone operator; in London. Vodafone chairman Lord MacLaurin said Gent stepped down over media criticism of his $19.8 million payout last year, when Vodafone recorded a $21.6 billion loss and its share price fell by a third. Gent's successor is Arun Sarin, head of Vodafone's U.S. ventures, who takes over in July...