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RECORD BROKEN. By PAULA RADCLIFFE, 28, in the women's running time for a 26.2-mile race; at the Chicago Marathon. The Briton finished in 2 hr. 17 min. 18 sec., a full 1 min. 29 sec. faster than the previous mark...
...Mawdsley's self-important tendencies can make him a target for mockery, and his admirable if maddening memoir The Iron Road is, at times, a bull's-eye. In Burma, a nation where so many suffer, the 29-year-old Briton's willing decision to add his pain to the mix can seem self-indulgent and quixotic. And yet, ultimately, Mawdsley comes across, like Don Quixote, as sympathetic, even a touch heroic. His heart is in the right place, even if the rest of him never seems...
...DIED. DEREK DAVIES, 71, crusty but respected editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review from 1964 to 1989; in Antibes, France. Briton Davies oversaw the Hong Kong-based Review's transformation from a single-sheet newsletter into a well-established magazine on Asian affairs...
...considered one of the sport's greatest players. He had won every major golf title except for the U.S. Open, of which he was runner-up four times. CHARGED. SAM BITH, 69, former Khmer Rouge general, with the 1994 kidnapping and murder of three backpackers-Australian David Wilson, Briton Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet; in Phnom Penh...
...death. ON TRIAL. FAN SHAORUN, 55, former Bank of China branch head in a small port city of southern Guangdong province, facing charges of corruption including misappropriating millions in public funds and accepting bribes from a smuggler now on death row; in Zhanjiang. SENTENCED. GARY O'NIONS, 56, Briton convicted of violating Saudi Arabia's strict Islamic law by trading in alcohol, to eight years in jail and 800 lashes, and fined more than $500,000; by a court in Riyadh...