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...Vegas. Fighting legend and former Golden Gloves lightweight champion, Futch won attention when he threw in the towel for Smokin' Joe in the 1975 "Thrilla' in Manila" bout against Muhammad Ali. DIED. ALEXANDRE BYIDI-AWALA, 69, one of Africa's best-known authors; in Douala, Cameroon. Under the nom de plume Mongo Beti, he wrote novels and essays denouncing colonization and its effects on African societies. Beti's most popular work, The Poor Christ of Bomba, was published in 1956. DIED. NIE MINZHI, 71, longtime activist and founder in 1998 of the outlawed China Democracy Party; after a stroke...
Only last January, in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, bin Laden's eldest son married the daughter of his longtime military chief and sometime media adviser, Mohammed Atef. Also known by his nom de guerre, Abu Hafs al-Masri, the Egyptian former policeman helped set up bin Laden's networks in East Africa and has been indicted in the U.S. for the deadly 1998 attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania...
...Pakistani in his mid-20s, Abu Zaid (his nom de guerre), gave up a chance to study medicine in the U.S. to the dismay of his parents. Instead, he enrolled in an Islamic militant training camp in the mountains northeast of Islamabad. There he learned how to handle a gun and explosives instead of a stethoscope. "We are not fanatics," he insists in a soft, earnest voice, "but we believe it's better to sacrifice ourselves than live in an unjust world." But where is the justice in indiscriminately killing thousands of office workers, firefighters and airline passengers - Christians, Jews...
...books became best sellers, and Sedaris (who also writes plays with his sister Amy under a shared nom de plume, The Talent Family) set out on a stop-start, never-ending reading tour that made him comic literature's equivalent of the Rolling Stones. His work continues to be featured on NPR, and this month Me Talk Pretty One Day, the fourth installment in Sedaris' ongoing autobiography, will be awarded the James Thurber Prize, the national book award for humor. Pretty good for a writer whose idea of fun is "sociological problems and medical mishaps...
...seen since Napster. This is partly the fact that FastTrack is so focused on the end user experience, and partly the fact that plenty of people are using it already. A million of us downloaded Morpheus last month, six million since April (when it was launched under the abortive nom de guerre KaZaa), and we've been pretty active. 370 million files were traded in June alone. Were they music files? There's no way to tell. All I know is I've never been able to cross songs off my must-have list this fast...