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...DIED. PETER BENENSON, 83, British lawyer and pioneering human-rights crusader who founded Amnesty International; of pneumonia; in Oxford, England. As a teenager he raised money to help children orphaned by the Spanish Civil War. In 1961 he launched Amnesty International to help those he called "prisoners of conscience," after reading about two Portuguese students jailed for toasting liberty. He early on resigned his leadership of the London-based group--now with nearly 2 million members worldwide--but remained a passionate activist...
...courageous memoir. And then, at the age of 81, he published his first work of fiction, A Saint, More or Less: A Novel. After the death of his first wife, Beverly, Grunwald remarried. His wife Louise was by his side last week, and his three children, Mandy, Lisa and Peter. Last year, after his cardiac episode, Lisa told him that he must have survived because he had something further he wanted to accomplish. "No," he told her. "I think I just love living." He did it very well. He left us with warm memories and the challenge of living...
...Famous for his innovative blend of French-Mediterranean style with local specialties, two-star chef Claus-Peter Lumpp has established himself as one of the town's culinary institutions. At his elegant, Louis XV-style restaurant in the 120-bedroom Hotel Bareiss Mitteltal, Lumpp offers a "grand tasting menu" that features such delicacies as glazed saddle of fawn, plums drenched in Armagnac (a famous French brandy) and parsley root fondue. tel: (49-7442) 470; www.bareiss.com...
...Angel investor Peter Thiel throws One Million User Party at Frisson (San Francisco...
...next concerts are on March 12 and 13 in Sanders, and will feature Harvard’s own Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church Peter J. Gomes as narrator...