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...Shakespeare Company, that Helen Mirren is an actor of tremendous skill should come as a shock to none. It is nevertheless surprising that she is the true star of the latest Broadway revival of Strindberg’s Dance of Death, somehow managing to outshine her distinguished co-star, Sir Ian McKellen. With a flawless, expressive delivery, Mirren is radiant as a long-suffering wife who is part-demon, part-martyr...
...Wicket Ways An icon to fans in his native India, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman to reach 10,000 one-day runs. The only record the modest 28-year-old is in no danger of grabbing is the 99.94 Test average of Australia's Sir Donald Bradman, who died this year...
...DIED. SIR PETER BLAKE, 53, yachtsman and explorer who led New Zealand to America's Cup championships in 1995 and 2000; when masked pirates came aboard his moored yacht and shot him as he tried to prevent the robbery; at the mouth of the Amazon River, near Macapa. Blake had been in Brazil for two months monitoring the effects of global warming and pollution...
...SIR JOHN BROWNE Energy executives and environmentalists were like oil and water until Browne, 53, changed the rules of engagement in a 1997 speech announcing a greener direction for BRITISH PETROLEUM. BP now limits its greenhouse-gas emissions and has invested $1 billion in solar-energy technology, becoming the world's largest photovoltaic manufacturer. At the same time, he has taken BP from near obscurity to the world's No. 3 oil company, buying competitors like Amoco and inspiring other execs to copy his formula for blending environmentalism and strong earnings...
...eulogized by the crowds who gathered outside the Abbey Road studios in London and in Strawberry Fields, the area of Manhattan's Central Park across from where Lennon was shot, and by his former bandmates. "He was a beautiful man. He was like my baby brother to me," said Sir Paul, who lost his wife Linda to breast cancer in 1998. Starr, long Harrison's best friend in the band, said, "We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter...