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...DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who adeptly steered the proceedings in former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; of a brain tumor; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February owing to grave health, after two years of regular courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...DIED. SIR RICHARD MAY, 65, British judge who presided over former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's war-crimes tribunal; in Oxford, England. The low-key but occasionally prickly barrister resigned in February due to grave health, and after two years of courtroom wrangling with the defiant Serbian leader over everything from cell-phone use to the former dictator's efforts to blame the Balkan wars on Western political leaders...
...ended in 2001, followed 35,000 male doctors and found that kicking the habit reduced mortality rates on a sliding scale. Quit at 60, and you gain three years of life; quit at 30, and it's almost as if you never smoked. Take it from Sir Richard Doll, 91, who quit at 37 and co-authored the original paper as well as last week's update. While 50-year studies are rarities in medicine, researchers who survive them are even rarer...
...DIVORCED. Pakistani cricketer and politician IMRAN KHAN, 51, and his wife, British socialite JEMIMA, 30; in London. Jemima, daughter of late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, converted from Judaism to Islam and went to live modestly with her husband in Pakistan while he pursued his political career. Jemima's return to London with their two sons last year and her recent appearances at celebrity events sparked rumors that she'd had difficulty adjusting to her new life and that the marriage was in trouble. Imran called the divorce a "mutual decision," and said, "my home and my future is in Pakistan...
...route, and if he succeeds in restoring a measure of security and stability to the daily life of ordinary Iraqis he may well be rewarded for it at the polls. Despite the official rhetoric from Washington and London on Iraq's future, Britain's erstwhile top man in Iraq, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, last week offered the blunt assessment that "there is never going to be a Western-style democracy in Iraq." The danger, however, is that if Allawi finds himself at odds with large sections of his own people, the U.S. could find itself in an uncomfortable position of having...