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...DIED. WILTON MKWAYI, 81, antiapartheid fighter who served more than 20 years of a life sentence with Nelson Mandela in prison on Robben Island; in King Williams Town, South Africa. Mkwayi helped found an armed-resistance movement called Spear of the Nation in the 1950s. Convicted of treason in 1964, he was released as the apartheid system was being dismantled...
...More than a patriot, Jefferson was a visionary statesman with just enough tenderness to make him a historic but flawed human being." NELSON ALBA North Miami Beach...
...challenge Burrough faces in writing about people like Nelson and Kelly is that they've gone thin and stiff with age. "After decades spent in the washing machine of popular culture," Burrough writes, "their stories have been bled of all reality." Burrough strips the comic-book glamour off those cardboard villains and gives them back their grit and power to shock. We learn that Nelson was a tiny blond sociopath whose viciousness frightened even his pals. "Pretty Boy" Floyd--Charley to his friends--was a Dust Bowl farm boy. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow come off as greedy, murderous children...
...came to be called, jump-started a national anticrime campaign that turned a governmental backwater called the Bureau of Investigations (the Federal came later) into the modern FBI. The killings also inaugurated a rollicking two-year carnival of bank robberies and kidnappings carried out by men like "Baby Face" Nelson and "Machine Gun" Kelly, men whose nicknames ring a bell but who, it turns out, we never really knew...
...help the blind, but I don't think they need help. After all, I'm blind and I'm doing all right." He was doing all right all the way to the end. He recently completed a CD with contributions from Norah Jones, B.B. King and Willie Nelson. A biographical film starring Jamie Foxx will be out in October. Charles' legacy should last as long as soul itself. He did his mother proud. He found that other...