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DIED. GARDNER MCKAY, 69, TV heartthrob who left show business to become a successful playwright; of prostate cancer; in Oahu, Hawaii. When his South Seas series, Adventures in Paradise, ended in the early '60s, he turned down Marilyn Monroe's plea that he appear in her never finished film Something's Got to Give. After living in the Amazon, McKay wrote dozens of plays, including Sea Marks, and the well-received 1999 novel Toyer...
...this season, it would be well to recall what Rudyard Kipling once penned. He wrote for another people and another time, but his plea has of necessity become...
PLEADED GUILTY. SARA JANE OLSON, 54, homemaker and ex-fugitive formerly known as Kathleen Soliah; to the attempted murder of police by car bombs in 1975 for the Symbionese Liberation Army; in Los Angeles. Olson's comments following the plea--she maintained her innocence but said she would not receive a fair trial in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks--prompted the judge to order a hearing to determine whether to toss out the plea...
...years, not the 30 he was expecting. "Everyone was shocked," says his lawyer, Stanley Schneider, who blames Sept. 11 backlash. Doug Allen, a Claremont, Calif., attorney, says he recently had his client--accused of trespassing in a restricted area and then trying to run down a security guard--plea-bargain. Before the attack, he would have gone to trial. "You're really in trouble with those facts because everyone is real sensitive to people being where they don't belong right now," he says...
...strategy almost as crucial as the strategy. The White House and Downing Street have created new Coalition Information Centers, campaign-style spin shops in Washington, London and Pakistan aimed at countering Taliban claims as soon as they are issued. And this week President Bush will make his plea to give war a chance, as he meets with Tony Blair of Britain, Jacques Chirac of France and Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan and delivers three speeches on war and terror-including his maiden address to the U.N. General Assembly, scheduled for Saturday...