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...banned from the game for life in 2000 for his role in a match-fixing scandal, in a plane crash; in Western Cape province. Cronje admitted accepting more than $100,000 from gamblers but denied ever throwing a match. DIED. MARIO LAGO, 90, Brazilian actor, samba composer, poet and political dissident; in Rio de Janeiro. Lago appeared in more than 30 telenovelas (Brazilian soap operas) and 20 films, and wrote more than 200 songs. A leftist, Lago was repeatedly imprisoned during Brazil's military regime from 1964 to 1986. CLOSED. PUNCH, the English-language satirical magazine first published...
Francisco Goya is one of those artists who seem both to transcend their time and to epitomize it. Nihil humanum a me alienum puto (I hold nothing alien from me that has to do with human nature), wrote the Roman poet Terence. This motto was lived out to the fullest degree by certain 19th century geniuses. Charles Dickens, with his insatiable interest in character and narrative, was one. In a more abstract way--music being an abstract art anyway--so was Beethoven, in his creation of equivalents for the human passions. And so, in the domain of the visual...
When you start writing for TIME, you learn that there's you and then there's Nancy Gibbs. She is a rare combination of workhorse and poet, one who can quickly digest information, then deftly contextualize it. The attacks "assume[d] our faith rests on what we can buy and build," she wrote in the hours after Sept. 11, but "that has never been America's true God." Last week the Society of Professional Journalists recognized Gibbs with its award for best magazine writing. It was a bittersweet moment for all who worked on the piece, but we are proud...
...Unknown novelist --Minor poet --Radical environmentalist...
...Paris. The maverick businessman began his career at his family's glass company before switching his sights to food. Riboud ran Danone, which now has $12.7 billion in sales, until late in his 70s when he handed control to his son Franck. DIED. KAIFI AZMI, 87, award-winning Urdu poet, lyricist and father of Indian actress Shabana Azmi; in Bombay. A student of the progressive school of poetry, Azmi's writings often mirrored the socio-political scene in India where he was an advocate for a socialist society. DIED. YEVGENY SVETLANOV, 73, Russian conductor who led Russia's State Symphony...