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DIED. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 52, chiseled star of four Superman movies, who became even better known for his inspiration and activism after a 1995 horse-riding accident left him paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, New York. Reeve won the Superman role in 1977 after a brief stage career and a single bit part in a film, and gave the character strength, romance and, as alter ego Clark Kent, a deft comic touch. After his accident, Reeve became a powerful spokesman for spinal-injury victims, advocating the use of fetal stem cells for medical research...
...make a movie about a rock-'n'-roll icon who didn't die young? The fables of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, Johnny Ace, Eddie Cochran and Sam Cooke provided their own curtain lines: a plane or a car crash, a gunshot wound. Their early deaths at the top of their game built little legends--tragic portraits suitable for filming...
...Spanish authorities, who believe he helped purchase a boat for bin Laden. DIED CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 52, chiseled star of the Superman movies, who became even better known for his inspiration and activism after a 1995 horseback-riding accident that left him paralyzed; of an infection from a pressure wound; in Mount Kisco, New York. He became a powerful spokesman for spinal-cord injuries, including the use of fetal stem cells for medical research, while continuing to work in films as an actor and director. DIED GERARD PIERRE-CHARLES, 68, influential Haitian author and politician; of heart failure after a lung...
Mankoff, however, discovered that not even an oversize, 10-lb. book is big enough to hold all 68,647 cartoons. So he picked the best 2,004 and put the rest on two CDs that come with the book. What he wound up with is not only a stand-up routine for smart people who own a coffee table but a history of American culture. You can see how confused and fascinated New Yorkers were by skyscrapers in the 1930s, how threatened and angered men were by workingwomen after World War II and how uncomfortable Americans were with the growing...
...father - from one of the cars. His shirt soaked with blood, he's been shot in the jaw, the lower left side of his face torn apart. Lance Corporal Nathaniel Bitsui, having just tended to the boy's leg, now presses bandages against the wound and tries to get an IV into his arm as squad leaders call for an ambulance. Emitting raspy moans, the man stares beseechingly at Bitsui, who cannot get the needle into the man's collapsing veins. A Marine ambulance arrives shortly and takes the civilians back to Combat Outpost...