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When he broke into TV in the mid-1960s, on shows like Merv Griffin and Ed Sullivan, RICHARD PRYOR--who died last week of a heart attack at age 65--was a cute, rubber-faced young comic with a knack for physical comedy and a childlike sweetness; in one of his earliest bits, he impersonated a band of scared grade-schoolers performing Rumpelstiltskin. Within a few years, he had become America's most celebrated comic revolutionary. Frustrated with the safe material he was doing on TV and in nightclubs, he walked out on a gig in Vegas, moved to Berkeley...
...more names than Erin Brockovich and I've called her everything in the book," he said. "But we love each other." DIED. DEVAN NAIR, 82, former President of Singapore who later became a critic of the city-state's government; in Hamilton, Canada. Nair, the son of a rubber-plantation clerk, rose to prominence as a union leader before reluctantly accepting the largely ceremonial position of President in 1981. He resigned in 1985 after a falling-out with then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, who publicly accused him of being an alcoholic?an accusation that resulted in several lawsuits...
...mediocre ability or even an incapable person." The proposed new rules wouldn't come into effect until 2008 because astrologers have deemed the intervening years inauspicious. The King is trying to convince the country to back the changes, which under the present system must be formally approved by its rubber-stamp parliament...
...public." Sometimes it's not enough to keep things private. Last August the kgb raided the apartments of several students who had e-mailed each other cartoons lampooning Lukashenko. The youths now face trial and stiff prison terms. Late last month, the rubber-stamp legislature passed a bill outlawing virtually every form of political dissent and authorizing wider use of pretrial detention, and stiffer jail sentences. It will come into effect just as the presidential election campaign kicks off. "Of course you'll elect me," the Batska declared earlier this month. "What else can you do?" Western nations have criticized...
...vanguard brother-sister team of Thien and My Ta Trung at Canadian design studio Periphere when they created the all-steel, rococo-esque Iceberg table, with a laser-cut snowflake pattern in bright mirror chrome. In similar fashion is the Conran Shop's Prince chair, with a wool-covered rubber seat and back?originally designed by Louise Campbell for an invitation-only competition to give form to a chair for Denmark's Crown Prince. Swede Monica Forster was inspired by snow crystals and sunbeams when building her zinc-plated, polyester-powder-coated Cake and Sun tables, which catch light...