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...vast experience of Montgomerie, who has played in five Cups, and German Bernhard Langer, a veteran of nine who has expressed interest in the 2004 captaincy, will steady the team. Also look for Sergio Garc?a and Jesper Parnevik. In 1999, the fiery young Spaniard and the quirkily cool Swede were unbeaten in their four matches together. Two rookies who may make an early impact are Ireland's Paul McGinley and Phillip Price of Wales. The stocky, steady McGinley will likely partner with Harrington, his affable, slow-playing countryman. The two won the 1997 World Cup and took three of their...
...part of the appeal of the Authentics is that they write their own songs, will they be able to score hits as big as the anthems of Britney, 'N Sync and the Backstreet Boys, whose killer hooks were penned by studio wizards like the Swede Max Martin? So far, the labels have taken the middle path between ordering the artists to submit to the will of a 50-year-old songwriting coach and locking them up to write melodies in solitary confinement. "I sit down with a guitar player usually, and I come up with melody and lyrics," explains Lavigne...
DIED. ASTRID LINDGREN, 94, self-effacing, globally revered children's author; in Stockholm. The wildly imaginative and sometimes controversial Swede wrote more than 70 books, but was best known for Pippi Longstocking, a willful, sometimes ill-mannered gamine with bright red pigtails whose self-confidence shocked traditionalists. Lindgren said that Pippi, whose name was coined by her daughter, struck a chord in part because she "has power...but never misuses...
...PEACE LIKE A RIVER This engaging first novel, set in the early 1960s, follows the Land family--father Jeremiah; son Reuben, 11; and daughter Swede, 9--as they try to track down eldest son, Davy, 17, who has been convicted of murder but escaped from jail. Their trek occasions some literally miraculous events, and author Leif Enger makes the preposterous plausible and good...
Peace Like a River This engaging first novel, set in the early 1960s, follows the Land family - father Jeremiah; son Reuben, 11; and daughter Swede, 9 - as they try to track down eldest son, Davy, 17, who has been convicted of murder but escaped from jail. Their trek occasions some literally miraculous events, and author Leif Enger makes the preposterous plausible and good...