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...away in France, she had surgery to remove uterine tumors and died on the operating table. Orwell was devastated. He set out to raise Richard alone, but proposed marriage to nearly every woman he met. He also finished Animal Farm, a fable about barnyard communism gone wrong that struck a chord in the postwar era. For the first time, he had royalties, though not the health to enjoy them. Lungs hemorrhaging, he embarked on a grand dystopian novel, 1984. When it was published in 1949 to global acclaim, the author was lying in a London hospital with tuberculosis. That didn...
Your story on the trouble that the U.S. is having in controlling the crime and chaos in Iraq [WORLD, May 26] struck me as condemning the conductor instead of the orchestra that is playing badly. Iraqi citizens don't seem to be able to act in their own self-interest, probably because of the country's factionalism. I bet a lot of scores are being settled right now. Iraq will come together but not before the Iraqis squeeze as much money as they can from the U.S. JOHN EADES Zionsville...
...panel of qualified medical experts, rather than one hired gun, to sign off on a suit before it can go forward. But he doesn't hold out much hope. Twice in the past two decades, the state legislature has passed caps on noneconomic jury awards only to have them struck down as unconstitutional by the state supreme court. (Courts in other states, including California, have upheld similar caps.) Many state politicians are more than happy to hand the thorny issue off to Congress. State senator Walsh says some of his colleagues believe that the crisis eventually "will just work itself...
Michael would be Michael Stipe of R.E.M. The two singers struck up a friendship through mutual admiration in the mid-'90s, and Stipe, another introverted front man, has become Yorke's occasional mentor. "It's a very particular thing that we do," says Stipe. "It's different from playing guitar or acting or painting, and he just needed someone who had been through it to kind of bring him back down to earth and overstate the obvious, which is that you can't believe your own hype. His material explores darker aspects of walking the earth, and people project that...
DIED. SLOAN WILSON, 83, author of the best-selling 1955 novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit; of complications from Alzheimer's disease; in Colonial Beach, Va. His novel of suburban and corporate angst struck a postwar nerve and coined a cultural catchphrase...