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...singer, songwriter and playwright who infused his work with the sociopolitical truths of black American life; of complications from a blood infection; in Chicago. Brown, an actor on TV shows like Brewster Place and Roc, recorded such albums as 1960's Sin & Soul ... and Then Some and produced the stage revue Opportunity, Please Knock, employing high-profile gang members in the cast. "I wanted to present a picture of black culture," he said, "to anyone who could hear...
That performance set the stage for Saturday’s final, where Harvard faced Princeton and unfamiliar West Coast powerhouses Cal and Washington...
...whether the bomb missed and who the target was, Adam says the mission put the SAS at the planning table in hunting Bin Laden and resulted in significant roles in other operations. When Three Squadron rotated in during April, Adam says they achieved extraordinary feats of reconnaissance - at one stage astounding the Americans with detailed pictures of weapons being smuggled across the border in a trailer being towed by a red tractor. Even the hard-to-impress British SAS were stunned by Three Squadron's patrols, says one trooper. "The Poms could only last four days. We managed seven without...
...runners pounding through a choice of scores of events each year. But for those in search of roads less jogged, Asia is beginning to offer its own share of long marches?from the Lake Saroma 100-km run in northern Japan to China's Gobi March, a six-stage, 250-km painfest that locals call the "Race of No Return." But the best of them all, for combining suffering and scenic beauty, is probably the annual Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset?a 100-km, waterside race around spectacular Lake Khovsgol and the surrounding national park, scheduled this year for June...
DIED. EDDIE ALBERT, 99, affably comedic actor of stage and screen, best known for playing an urban sophisticate transplanted with his wife (Eva Gabor) to the country, in the 1960s sitcom Green Acres; in Los Angeles. After lead roles on Broadway (Room Service, The Boys from Syracuse), he won an Oscar nomination as the jaunty photographer and pal to reporter Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. But he could seethe too, winning acclaim as a psychopathic infantry officer in the 1956 World War II drama Attack and another Oscar nomination as the forbidding father of Cybill Shepherd's Wasp princess...