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...London-born, Cambridge-taught, married with no children, he doesn't talk much about his methods or motives. He did, however, pursue a Ph.D. in Victorian literature, which may explain the handcrafted antique seriousness of his best work. That would include 1983's Waterland, a sweeping, impressively detailed family saga of fortune and folly. Swift's version was watered down into a movie with Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke, but the novel made the short list for the Booker Prize. Swift finally won the Booker in 1996 for Last Orders, an equally powerful tale of four London friends heading...
...Kremlin, Igor Konovalov, and Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov, chief bell ringer of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The Russian musical duo is teaching three master classes to the five undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells now in Lowell. The 18 bells in the tower originally hung in the Danilov Monastery, but were purchased by philanthropist Charles R. Crane and given to Harvard in 1930 to save them from the possibility of destruction under Stalinist rule. The bells are scheduled...
...close when Attorney General of North Carolina Roy Cooper announced that there had been inconclusive evidence in the case, and therefore he believed the accused were innocent. For the three vindicated student-athletes at the center of the case, the announcement marked the end of a 13-month saga, which began in March of 2006, when they were accused of raping a stripper at a party held by their lacrosse team. The accuser, a stripper named Crystal Magnum who had been hired to perform at the party, alleged that she had been hung upside down and raped by the three...
...much-publicized Pring-Wilson saga began on the morning of Apr. 12, 2003 when he fatally stabbed 18-year-old Michael D. Colono five times in seventy seconds during an altercation outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor...
...worth $4.2 billion, but Nina Wang, Asia's richest woman, liked to eat takeout and shop at discount outlets. The saga of "Little Sweetie," as she was dubbed by the Hong Kong press, became tabloid fodder as she battled her father-in-law over the fortune of her real estate--tycoon husband Teddy Wang, who was kidnapped in 1990 and never seen again. (A 2005 ruling allowed her to hold on to the estate.) She was 69 and reportedly had ovarian cancer...