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...crowd at photographer Helmut Newton's show isn't what one usually finds at an exhibition of fashion photography. Sure, there are some beautiful people - fashion editors, models and photographers - but there are also a suspiciously large number of men in trenchcoats. The site of the show, London's Barbican Centre, is near the financial district, but it's hard to imagine that these middle-aged, white-collar workers just stumbled upon the third-floor exhibition, called "Work," during a lunchtime stroll. No, the truth is that the work for which Newton is best-known - photographs of tall, domineering...
DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, loyal wife of 41 years to former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; by suicide; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Since 1993 she had endured a painful and untreatable allergy to sunlight, triggered by a severe reaction to a penicillin treatment. The photoallergy, which caused hivelike rashes and fever, forced Kohl to remain indoors every day until dark. During the past 15 months her debilitating condition had worsened and left her totally homebound and dependent on painkillers...
...Lazio's Czech favorite Pavel Nedved. DIED. MORDECAI RICHLER, 70, author and screenwriter; in Montreal. Among his many achievements, the caustic Canadian had been twice short-listed for the Booker Prize and appointed to the Order of Canada. See Eulogy. DIED. HANNELORE KOHL, 68, wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl; in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Her elegant life as the Chancellor's wife?she was also an accomplished cook and linguist?was afflicted by a devastating allergy to sunlight. She committed suicide. ARRESTED, ALFREDO ASTIZ, 50, in Buenos Aires. The "Blond Angel of Death" participated in the torture and murder...
...though Rubin's speech this year might not have the significance of the recent Commencement appearances of political figures like West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1990, Hunt says that as a result of the prominent status of Harvard alumni, the University is well positioned to attract world leaders at crucial moments if the need arises...
...Helping Schröder in Baden-Württemberg is the long shadow cast by a political funding scandal involving Helmut Kohl. The former Chancellor and cdu leader admitted receiving cash contributions that weren't reported as required by law, though he escaped criminal charges last month by agreeing to pay a $141,000 fine. Still, the scandal has left the Christian Democratic leadership in crisis. Angela Merkel, the new cdu leader chosen last year, has been trading insults with two rivals who covet her job: Friedrich Merz, the cdu's leader in par-liament, and Edmund Stoiber, head...