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Offers news briefs regarding celebrities, politicians and others. Dismissal of charges against Ilario Pantano, the Marine lieutenant accused of shooting two unarmed Iraqis to death near a suspected terrorist hideout; Deaths of film producer Ismail Merchant, comedic actor Howard Morris, and Eddie Albert, comedic actor of stage and screen; Others.

Presents several news items. Charges filed against anti-Castro exile Luis Posada Carriles; Charges filed against Anna Ayala; Death of medical ethicist Marc Lappe, actor Frank Gorshin, and Paul Keene.

Presents information related to famous people as of August 30, 2004. Death of Isidro Lopez, a saxophonist and crooner; How Hugo Chavez was kept in office as president of Venezuela; Death of composer Elmer Bernstein; Deaths of Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, Susan Alsop, Sune Bergrstrom, Hiram Fong and Carl Mydans.

Provides news briefs regarding notable individuals as of October 6, 2003. Death of George Plimpton, an editor of 'The Paris Review' and a participatory journalist in 'Paper Lion'; Resignation of Carl McCall as the chairman of the board at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE); Death of actors Donald O'Connor and Gordon Jump; Others.

Mentions the deaths of several celebrities. Background on Edward Teller, a Hungarian-born physicist, who helped promote the Manhattan Project and the H-bomb; Details of the assault on Swedish politician Anna Lindh, which resulted in her death; Indication that a coronary tear was the cause of death of actor John Ritter; Poet Warren Zevon, a lung cancer victim; Death of cartoonist Warren Kremer at the age of 82.

Provides several obituaries for various notable individuals as of August 25, 2003. Death of Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda who was living in exile in Saudi Arabia; How entertainer Gregory Hines died; Death of ice hockey coach Herb Brooks; Others.

Presents milestones in the lives of famous persons as of August 2003. Resignation of William Bulger as president of the University of Massachusetts; Death sentence given to Amrozi Bin Nurhasyim in relation with the Bali nightclub attacks; Death of author Robert Donovan,

Presents news briefs for August 11, 2003. The death of record producer Sam Phillips; Death of Democratic Senator Vance Hartke; Death of comedian Bob Hope.

Reports the deaths of several famous people for July 21, 2003. Conjoined twins, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who underwent the risk of surgery to separate their brains; Economic historian Charles Kindleberger; Author Winston Graham; Poet Josephine Jacobsen; Television actor Buddy Ebsen; British chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi war-crime trials, Hartley Shawcross.

Presents news briefs related to famous people. Death of runner Kim Gallagher; Death of writer Lynda Van Devanter; Death of songwriter Buddy Kaye; Death of actor James Coburn; Death of Israeli founding father Abba Eban; Conviction of Princess Anne of England for violating Britain's Dangerous Dog Act.

Announces the murder of rap musician Jason Mizell, also known as Jam Master Jay. His reputation for being nice; Additions he made to the pop music world.

Presents brief articles related to public figures and current events as of August 19, 2002. Operation which separated conjoined twins Maria Teresa and Maria de Jesus Quiej-Alverez in Los Angeles, California; Settlement of a lawsuit regarding a bequest to the presidential library of former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon; Death of television actor Matt Robinson; Others.

Mentions several celebrities. Death of actor Rod Steiger from kidney failure; Finding of the sunken PT 109 torpedo boat by explorer Robert Ballard, who also located the Titanic; Conviction of ex-sheriff Sidney Dorsey for masterminding the murder of his successor, Derwin Brown, in Georgia; Sentence of Joseph Mesa Jr. for the murder of two of his fellow students at Gallaudet University; Deaths of Kenneth Koch, Lore Noto, Ward Kimball,and Yousuf Karsh.

Presents news relating to celebrities as of March 4, 2002. Arrest of David Westerfield in the kidnapping of Danielle van Dam; Revocation of the U.S. citizenship of John Demjanjuk; Death of Jonas Savimbi, leader of UNITA, the Angolan rebel group; Death of animator Chuck Jones; Others.

Presents an excerpt from an article in 'Time' from 1923 that discussed the death of Pancho Villa. Similarity of Villa to Osama bin Laden, both terrorists targeted by a United States military manhunt.

Presents news briefs related to public figures as of December 31, 2001. Separation of actress Drew Barrymore and comedian Tom Green; Discovery of the body of Don Wiley, a Harvard biologist, in the Mississippi River in Vidalia, Louisiana; Death of sports journalist Dick Schaap; Others.

Focuses on the May 7, 1945 issue of 'Time,' which featured a cover indicating the death of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Mention of the ruin that Europe's fascist dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, allegedly caused; Assertion that Hitler was a monster and failed in his war on non-German mankind.

Presents various international news as of December 17, 2001. Resignation of evangelist Pat Robertson from the Christian Coalition; Arrest of Clayton Lee Waagner for illegal possession of firearm; Death of yachtsman and explorer Sir Peter Blake; Others.

Mentions the investigation of an anthrax outbreak in the United States. Clues about the cross-contamination of the letters carrying anthrax in Connecticut and New Jersey; Outlook for explaining the deaths of Ottilie Lundgren and another woman.

Presents celebrity-related news briefs as of November 26, 2001. Retirement of baseball player Mark McGwire; Election of attorney Manny Diaz as mayor of Miami, Florida; Death of fashion editor Carrie Donovan; Others.

Comments on the attempts of people to profit on the death of Princess Diana. The price for a dress that once belonged to Diana; A Volvo dealership in Macau using a photograph of Diana to tout the safety of their automobiles.

Presents news briefs relating to celebrities. Death of African American tennis player Althea Gibson; Tiger attack on Roy Horn, half of the illusionist team Siegfried & Roy; Ruling by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on the death penalty in the trial of alleged terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui; Deaths of lawyer Robert Kardashian and cartoonist-illustrator William Steig.

Remembers motion picture director Elia Kazan. Kazan's influence on movie and stage acting; Success of "A Streetcar named Desire," the Tennessee Williams play Kazan directed on Broadway in 1947 and filmed in 1951; Biographical and career details; How Kazan co-founded the Actors Studio; Kazan's direction of actors Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront" and James Dean in "East of Eden"; Kazan's image; Anger against Kazan for identifying himself and friends as communists before the House Un-American Activities Committee.