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...DIED. RENE CLEMENT, 82, film director; in southern France. Clement's fascination with World War II informed works as diverse as Forbidden Games (1951), the Oscar-winning portrait of an orphan who learns to mourn her parents by burying her pets, and Is Paris Burning? (1966), an epic of the closing days of the Nazi occupation...
...landmark book called The Concept of Mind. It resoundingly dismissed the idea of a human soul--a "ghost in the machine," as Ryle derisively put it--as a hangover from prescientific thought. Ryle's juiciest target was the sort of soul imagined back in the 17th century by Rene Descartes: an immaterial, somewhat autonomous soul that steers the body through life. But the book subdued enthusiasm for even less supernatural versions of a soul: mind, consciousness, subjective experience...
...pitcher Rene Arocha became the first Cuban national-team member to defect, and he soon established himself with the St. Louis Cardinals. There have been a few other defectors--Oakland Athletics pitcher Ariel Prieto and New York Mets shortstop Rey Ordonez--whom the Cubans tried to dismiss as second-rank malcontents. But when Fernandez got into Cubas' van last July, they could no longer make that claim. He was, after all, 22-0 in international competition, with a 1.62 era. And he was not considered a security risk...
...While neighbors tried to save the kids, Rene was sitting outside smoking a cigarette and drinking a Pepsi...
...Baltimore prosecutor Donald Huskey on Rene Aulton, who was convicted yesterday of killing her two young daughters by setting fire to the family's house. Aulton's motive is suspected to be an attempt to revive a failing relationship with her boyfriend...