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...strangling of his grandfather in New Guinea had been tried and sentenced. He knew that 64-year-old John William Bell had been among a party of 23 Australian nationals, including a 14-year-old boy, who were rounded up and garrotted on New Ireland's Kavieng wharf in 1942. War crimes investigators indicted six Japanese over the massacre in the late 1940s. But what Bell didn't know was that the Australian government dropped the case against a seventh man, the officer who decreed that the victims be strangled. "I think it would have been proper at the time...
...best cities in the world. Although everyone is told that the cable cars are simply an over-hyped tourist attraction, I loved standing on the edge and enjoying the wind as the cable cars whisk over the city’s characteristic steep hills. Fisherman’s Wharf was just as tourist-filled as the Yard but worth the experience simply to watch the unique street performers. The Bushman, a man disguised as a bush on the sidewalk, was my favorite; periodically he jumped out and scared pedestrians walking...
...RSIP officer Ege Saro skippers the inflatable around shallow-lying coral reefs. Reaching open water, he pushes it to a zippy, if bumpy, 27 knots. After a 50-min. journey, the boat arrives at Rendova Island, and Curragh and Sergeant Allenson Tiazy jump from the boat onto a small wharf at Ughele village - to be greeted by a throng of children that appears to double in size by the minute. It's a common Melanesian scene: skylarking children enjoying their freedom, men in earnest discussion at disused market stalls, and in the background - nursing, gardening, forever at work - the village...
...fashioned is precisely the description that the avant-garde would attach to Briton David Pownall's Pride and Prejudice, being given its U.S. premiere in a meticulous production by Kenneth Frankel at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater. Shrewdly and wittily adapted from Jane Austen's classic 1813 novel, Pownall's tale has a beginning, middle and end. Its intrigues of love, marriage and social climbing unfold in period costume on representational sets. The characters are affectionate exaggerations of recognizable types. This is satire without much bite: the play's boldest statements are that there is more to life than...
...board game Monopoly hit London in 1936, the priciest property sold for a then staggering ?400. That doesn't go far in London today, so a limited-edition 70th anniversary special Monopoly Here & Now brings the game up to date. New hot properties such as Notting Hill and Canary Wharf are selling for mini-money millions, a barrage of London icons - including the London Eye, Tate Modern and the new Wembley Stadium - have appeared and, instead of scooping up $18 in a beauty contest, players who draw the right Chance card receive $183,000 for winning a reality TV show...