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There are exceptions. As a UNICEF ambassador, he made trips to Uganda and Kyrgyzstan. After shooting The Constant Gardener in Kenya, he helped producer Simon Channing-Williams set up a fund to build a school near and clean up Lake Turkana, where the film's climactic scene is set. But even though the novel deals with the exploitation of Africa by the governments and drug companies of the "civilized world," Fiennes insists he was not looking to make a political film. "It was only when I saw the film in its first cut that I thought, 'This is about Africa...
...with the dead, then who better to take as companions than Thomas à Becket; Pope Adrian IV, the only Englishman to occupy the papal chair; and Walter de Merton, the founder of Merton College, Oxford? At the site of London's Merton Priory, one can walk with kings, queens, Simon de Montfort, William Morris and even Lord Nelson. Services are still held annually in the Chapter House remains of the marvelous Augustinian Priory, which outshone the 12th century church of St. Bartholomew the Great in size and influence for 500 years. Smithfield may be marvelous, but Merton Priory is monumental...
DIED. DANNY SIMON, 86, veteran comedy writer for Phil Silvers, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar, and the inspiration for some of the famous characters written by his younger brother Neil; in Portland, Ore. Revered by younger comics--Woody Allen said he learned all he knew about comedy writing from him--Danny had an idea for a play, from his experience as a divorced man living with another, that became Neil's The Odd Couple...
...attack on the calm of this watchful winter, in this case there was no apparent evil, no enemy other than the limits of man and machines and the tension between the goals we set and the risks we take. --With reporting by Michael Duffy/Washington, Cathy Booth-Thomas/Nacogdoches; Simon Crittle, Amy Goehner, Sean Gregory, Ratu Kamlani and Julie Rawe/New York; Meenakshi Ganguly/New Delhi; Rita Healy/Denver; Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral; Matt Rees and Aharon Klein/Jerusalem; and Winston Ross/Spokane
...Dunhill's CEO Simon Critchell admits that the company needed its 100-year repair. Owned by one of the world's leading luxury goods groups, Richemont, the brand had gradually been losing its direction. "People didn't really know what the brand stood for," says Critchell, formerly of Cartier, who took over as CEO of Dunhill in 2001. Last year, after a total image overhaul spearheaded by Yann Debelle de Montby, director of image and communication, the brand's famous Jermyn Street store reopened as a haven for men looking for that quintessentially English accessory. The store also features...