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...DIED. Eric Newby, 86, venerated, genial British travel writer who infused his accounts of trips to remote locales-which often proved disastrous-with wit and humanity; in Surrey, England. His signature work, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, detailed his long, illness-ridden ascent of Afghanistan's 6,000-m peak Mir Samir...
...DIED. Desmond Dekker, 64, Kingston welder turned rocker who introduced ska and reggae to the world beyond Jamaica, scoring a Top 10 single in both the U.S. and England with his 1968 song Israelites; of an apparent heart attack in Surrey, England. Before most people had heard of Bob Marley, Dekker chronicled Jamaican street life in songs like Rude Boy Train; 007 (Shanty Town), which appeared on the sound track to the film The Harder They Come...
...life's heroes because those we find in the corridors of power are only self-important speechmakers. The true heroes are on the streets and the front lines. They are hard to find because they are busy working, trying to solve the problems of the developing world. Stewart Dakers Surrey, England...
...life's heroes because those we find in the corridors of power are only self-important speechmakers. The true heroes are on the streets and the front lines. They are hard to find because they are busy working, trying to solve the problems of the developing world. Stewart Dakers Surrey, England Amid the calamities and diseases that this desperate world is experiencing, Time's Global Health heroes have worked with sincere compassion and without expecting something in return. They have demonstrated that the poor can still hope to see improvement in their lives. Time has shown that journalism can make...
Would the real Kazuo Ishiguro please stand up? The 50-year-old novelist is a tough man to classify. Born in Nagasaki, bred in Surrey (where he lived from the age of 5), he looks Japanese, but speaks with the accent of public-school England. Three of his six novels are set in the Far East, the other three explore the quintessence of Englishness. After the stately, hugely successful The Remains of the Day, which spawned the 1993 movie, Ishiguro went wild; his next two novels - The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans - subjected their characters to chaos, violence...