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DIED. JANE GREER, 76, alluring film-noir star from the 1940s; of cancer; in Los Angeles. Greer, who was briefly married to singer Rudy Vallee, was discovered by Howard Hughes. ("He was obsessed with me," she later said.) When Greer married her second husband, Hughes reduced her film work for his studio. Greer starred as a femme fatale opposite Robert Mitchum in the 1947 film Out of the Past--and, nearly four decades later, in the remake, Against All Odds...
Person of the Week CAST AWAY Australian Prime Minister John Howard wanted a Norwegian cargo ship full of asylum-seekers to take its payload elsewhere. The freighter's crew rescued more than 400 mostly Afghan refugees from a sinking Indonesian ferry. But Howard's hard line kept them in limbo for days...
...ensure that it did not. The stalemate triggered international bickering, with Australia, Indonesia and Norway all refusing to take responsibility for the passengers. It also sparked fierce debate in Australia, where illegal immigration has been a hot-button topic during this election year. Most Australians supported Prime Minister John Howard's hardline tack, which was criticized by churches and human-rights groups...
Funds for the work will be provided by the Maryland-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Melton is employed by the institute in addition to holding a Harvard faculty position...
...Churches, academic institutions, unions and nonprofits have jumped into reality tourism in part to raise money and in part to spread an activist message. The tours are proving attractive to ordinary Americans seeking to put a human face on the headlines. Two years ago, Howard Lipoff, 37, a New Jersey teacher, went to the Palestinian territories with Global Exchange and met with both Israeli settlers and a spokesman from Hamas, the radical Islamic group. This year he signed up to meet the Zapatistas. "We find out how they live their lives," he says. "It's history in the making...