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...early '50s the Lyttons consisted of two extended families, the Steeles and the Myerses, who were the sole occupants of a 50-acre reservation for homeless Indians north of Healdsburg, Calif. The families sometimes feuded, but they ultimately shared a common dream: they wanted to be landowners, not tenants on a reservation. In 1952 John and Dolores Myers wrote the BIA asking "to secure a patent fee or a deed to this property." The Steeles sent a similar letter: they, too, wanted the reservation land deeded to them personally...
...late property tycoon Teddy Wang; after a court ruled last month that she had "probably" forged her husband's will; in Hong Kong. Nicknamed "Little Sweetie" for her pigtails and flamboyant clothes, Wang says her husband, who was kidnapped in 1990 and declared dead in 1999, named her sole beneficiary in a will dated a month before he disappeared. But the court rejected that claim and awarded Teddy Wang's estimated $128 million estate to his 90-year-old father. Wang is out on $640,000 bail. Forgery in Hong Kong carries a maximum jail term of 14 years...
Second-year Harvard Medical School (HMS) student Amar Dhand is Harvard’s sole Canadian Rhodes winner this year...
...this doctor. "They were never told, and still don't realize, how badly their health is ruined," he says. One group of victims, represented by Moscow lawyer Igor Trunov, is suing the city of Moscow for $7.5 million, claiming health damages or compensation for the loss of the sole provider in the family. Others, like Frolova, are also planning to sue. But under Russian law, terror victims are only permitted to sue the local government, while it is the federal authorities whom most of the Dubrovka victims hold responsible. "The operation was launched to wipe out the terrorists rather than...
...Chinese author. To many writers, the Nobel has proved a curse, triggering furious envy from rivals, and intensifying crippling perfor-mance anxiety. And some critics carped that Gao was an undeserving mediocrity, hinting that he won only because of his relationship with Goran Malmqvist, his Swedish translator and the sole Chinese-speaking member of the Nobel-awarding Swedish Academy?a charge Malmqvist denies. For Gao, it has been a trying experience. "The prize has brought me a lot of trouble," he admits. A year of book tours and interviews left the normally solitary writer battling high blood pressure and exhaustion...