Statesman of eclecticism
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John Peel&#39;s dry, quintessentially English voice led me and millions of others into an esoteric world of music, full of imagination and adventure.
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Daniel Bernard Roumain's appearance is memorable; so is his eclectic brand of musicmaking.
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He toured the 20th-century horizon as fully as the leaders he wrote about.
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Peter Max, the artist whose psychedelic style embodied the wild spirit of the 1960s, still is amazed and bemused by the impact of his works.
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If Benazir Bhuttoâs own life reads like a Greek tragedy, she was nonetheless a very modern politician, and the book she has written is part manifesto, part spin job, part selective history and part term-paper analysis.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian  mystic who taught meditation to the West, inspired the  anti-materialism of the late sixties and the music of the  Beatles, gaining a hold over the era's most influential stars.
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a sharp-witted and charismatic diplomat, who possesses analytical acumen and a sense of humor - is known for his love of rafting.
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Ornette Coleman is a jazz musician for whom the ideas are as important as the notes.
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Dharmendra speaks about his fitness, Hrishida, parliament and communal harmony.
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Graham Greene, who was born 100 years ago on Saturday, was a rarity in an increasingly parochial literary world -- a genuine internationalist with a keen political awareness who nevertheless refused to consider himself as a political writer.
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The author, activist and self-defined "zealot of seriousness" was a leading intellectual of the past half century.
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One element of Barack Obama's varied heritage has remained obscure - until now.
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As this fascinating, insightful book makes clear, Anatole Broyard left a legacy of racial confusion and great autobiographical material, not necessarily in that order.
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Arts & entertainment: Eccentric? Obsessed? Not so, he tells Peter Stanford, inviting him to his home to dispel a few myths
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âDo Me,â an eclectic literary anthology dedicated to sex in all its glorious iterations, offers an entertaining if uneven read.
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A revolutionary who fought for spontaneity over correctness JULIA CHILD, 1912-2004
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