DEPARTMENTS |
OCTOBER 2006 – NO. 9
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September 2006
Lost last month.
41 lbs., by Fidel Castro, after intestinal surgery. The U.S. Open, by Andy Roddick, to Roger Federer, in four sets. Augusto Pinochet's immunity regarding the Villa Grimaldi case, by the Chilean Supreme Court. Formula One's most successful driver, Michael Schumacher, announcing his retirement. Australian naturalist and "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, 44, of a stingray barb to the heart. Plenty of bagged spinach, recalled after 94 instances of E. Coli discovered. Question over succession to Japanese throne, after a son was born to Princess Kiko and Prince Akishino. Anna Nicole Smith's 20-year old son, Daniel, of unspecified causes. Second most senior al-Qaeda figure in Iraq, Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi, captured. Oriana Fallaci, 77, fearless writer and interviewer, of cancer, in her native Florence.
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