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...trials were conducted in front of the provincial Supreme Court, on which Horsmanden was a justice. During the grand jury investigations, Mary Burton, a servant of the white tavern-keeper John Hughson, admitted under threat of imprisonment that her master was plotting to overthrow the government and make himself the first monarch of New York City. (Of course, New York would not have an absolutist ruler for another 152 years, when the city elected Rudolph Giuliani as mayor...
...Master of Malgudi Thank you for "the fountainhead" [Aug. 15-22], about novelist R.K. Narayan, who vividly brought to life the make-believe South Indian town of Malgudi through detailed descriptions of every street, alley, shop and office. [The fictional town is the setting for almost all of Narayan's stories.] One of India's most subtly humorous writers, Narayan delighted in exploring the lives of ordinary Indians of all ages. A literary great, he is still alive in the hearts of many people around the world! Suresh Kumar Parappurath Bangalore, India...
DIED. CLARENCE (GATEMOUTH) BROWN, 81, master roots guitarist and fiddler who fought being labeled a bluesman and insisted his "American music"--which incorporated jazz, country, R&B and Cajun--defied categorization; two weeks after evacuating his home in Slidell, La., which was razed by Hurricane Katrina; in Orange, Texas. Nicknamed for his deep voice, he got his break in the late 1940s at Houston's Bronze Peacock club when T-Bone Walker fell ill and Brown jumped onstage and began riffing. ("I made $600 in 15 minutes," he boasted.) A collaborator with artists from Eric Clapton to Roy Clark...
...Nepal, lived in eastern India, attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya and then wandered the nearby country, preaching and making his first converts. For hundreds of years after his death, as Buddhism spread, pilgrims came from as far away as China and Central Asia to see the places where the master lived and preached...
...lush green grass. Just beyond the park's walls, a peacock climbs the roof of a Burmese Buddhist monastery to watch the sunset. In the other corner, near a statue of the Buddha preaching to his first five disciples, visitors gather around a monk who starts reciting the master's first sermon. As you listen, it is as if 2,500 years have been rolled back and you are hearing the Buddha himself, talking of why there is so much suffering on earth and what can be done...