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...AWARDED. PETER CAREY, 58, the Booker Prize for his book True History of the Kelly Gang, a fictionalized account of Australian legend Ned Kelly, the notorious outback gangster-turned-Robin Hood; in London. Carey became the second author in the prize's 33-year history to win twice, after South African J.M. Coetzee. Carey first won the Booker in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda. DIED. JAY LIVINGSTON, 86, Oscar-winning composer and lyricist whose collaboration with Ray Evans produced such hits as Silver Bells and Que Sera Sera; in Los Angeles. During their 64-year partnership the duo received seven...
Some have gone even further. Before the meeting of the European Council in Ghent, Britain?s Tony Blair, Germany?s Gerhard Schröder and France?s Jacques Chirac took advantage of the summit?s medieval venue, St. Peter?s Abbey, to hold a brief gathering of their own. This side meeting was held at Chirac?s initiative, and, not incidentally, it was consistent with his efforts to appear vigorous and statesmanlike in the run-up to next year?s French presidential elections. The "big three" were getting together as E.U. countries that have promised - and in the case...
...Muirhead moved on to help start iGabriel (www.igabriel.net), a global network of angel investors (including Internet doyenne Esther Dyson and rock star Peter Gabriel) to provide seed money to start...
...Peter T. Wilson...
...benefit, she did not read the phone book, though, but rather an involving piece by Peter Ho Davies, “Think of England.” Set in Wales during World War II, “Think of England” reveals the tension behind interactions between Welsh and English, provincials and soldiers, men and women. Pidgeon, raised in Scotland, slipped gradually into British vowels as she read the dialogue. Her unassuming reading allowed the subtlety of Davies’ writing to do its work, presenting a young Welsh girl yearning for a life beyond her provincial town...