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ByJillLawless TheAssociatedPress LONDON British actor Alan Rickman, a classi- cally trained stage star and sensual screen villain in the "Harry Potter" saga and other films, has died. He was 69. Rickman's family said that the actor died early Thursday in London after a battle with cancer. Daniel Radcliffe, who played opposite Rickman in eight "Harry Potter" films, said Rickman was "undoubt- edly one of the great- est actors I will ever work with." Born to a working- class Lon- don fam- ily in 1946 and trained at the presti- gious Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Rickman was often cast as the bad guy; with his rich, languid voice he could invest evil with wicked, irresistible relish. His breakout role was as scheming French aris- tocrat the Vicomte de Val- mont in an acclaimed 1985 Royal Shakespeare Com- pany production of Chris- topher Hampton's "Les Li- aisons Dangereuses." Film roles included Hans Gruber, the psycho- pathic villain who tor- mented Bruce Willis in "Die Hard" in 1988; a de- ceased lover who con- soles his bereaved part- ner in 1990's "Truly Madly Deeply"; the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham in "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" in 1991; and a wayward husband in 2003 roman- tic comedy "Love Actually." Millions know him from the Potter films, in which he played Hogwarts teacher Severus Snape, who was either a nemesis or an ally — possibly both — to the titular teenage wizard. Radcliffe, who played Harry, said Rickman "was one of the first of the adults on Potter to treat me like a peer rather than a child. Working with him at such a formative age was in- credibly important and I will carry the lessons he taught me for the rest of my life and career." Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling tweeted that "there are no words to ex- press how shocked and devastated I am to hear of Alan Rickman's death. He was a magnificent actor (and) a wonderful man." OBITUARY Al an R ic km an , st ar o f many stages, dies at 69 Rickman By Malcolm Ritter The Associated Press NEW YORK The remains of a mammoth that was hunted down about 45,000 years ago have revealed the earliest known evidence of humans in the Arctic. Marks on the bones, found in far northern Rus- sia, indicate the creature was stabbed and butchered. The tip of a tusk was dam- aged in a way that suggests human activity, perhaps to make ivory tools. With a minimal age es- timate of 45,000 years, the discovery extends the re- cord of human presence in the Arctic by at least about 5,000 years. The site in Siberia, near the Kara Sea, is also by far the northernmost sign of human presence in Eur- asia before 40,000 years ago, Vladimir Pitulko of the Russian Academy of Science in St. Petersburg and co-authors reported in a paper released Thursday by the journal Science. They also briefly report evidence of human hunt- ing at about the same time from a wolf bone found well to the east. That suggests a widespread occupation, al- though the population was probably sparse, they said. Daniel Fisher, a mam- moth expert at the Univer- sity of Michigan who did not participate in the study, said the markings on the mammoth bone strongly indicate human hunting. It makes sense to conclude that the hunters were from our own species rather than Neanderthals, John Hof- fecker of the University of Colorado at Boulder com- mented in an email. But Robert Park, an ar- chaeologist at the Univer- sity of Waterloo in Canada who has studied the bones of hunted animals in the far north, called the evidence for human hunting "pretty marginal." The beast had been found with remains of its fat hump, while hunt- ers would be expected to take the fat for food and fuel, he said. And the skele- ton shows far less butcher- ing than one would expect, he said. Park emphasized he's not ruling out the idea that the mammoth was hunted. If people were living this far north that long ago, he said, it implies they had not only the technical abil- ities to carry out mammoth hunts, but also a social or- ganization complex enough to share the food from the relatively rare kills. NORTHERN RUSSIA Mammoth bones show early human presence in Arctic ALEXEITIKHONOV—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS Volunteer Sergey Gorbunov works at the excavation site of a mammoth carcass in northern Russia's Siberia region near the Kara Sea. By Josh Boak The Associated Press WASHINGTON The income gap in major U.S. cities goes beyond the trend of rising paychecks for those at the top: Pay has plummeted for those at the bottom. Many of the poorest households still earn just a fraction of what they made before the Great Recession began in late 2007. Even as the recovery gained mo- mentum in 2014 with oth- erwise robust job growth, incomes for the bottom 20 percent slid in New York City, New Orleans, Cincin- nati, Washington and St. Louis, according to an anal- ysis of Census data released Thursday by the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "It's really about the poor losing ground rather than these upper-class house- holds pulling away," said Alan Berube, a senior fel- low at Brookings and dep- uty director of its metropol- itan policy program. Consider Cincinnati, home to such major com- panies as Procter & Gamble and Macy's that are associ- ated with middle class pros- perity. Its bottom 20 per- cent earned just $10,454 in 2014. After inflation, that's 3 percent less than what they earned in 2013 — and 25 percent below their in- comes when the recession started eight years ago. Cincinnati's top 5 per- cent of earners made at least $164,410 in 2014, a fig- ure that has increased since 2013, though it remains 7 percent below pre-reces- sion levels. The consequence is a widening income gap. The top 5 percent earned 15.7 times what the bottom 20 percent did in Cincinnati. Nationally, this ratio was 9.3 — the same as in 2013. Before the recession, the ra- tio was 8.5. The poorest have clawed back some of their earning power since the economy officially began to recover 6½ years ago. But the anal- ysis suggests that strong job growth and modest pay raises have failed to pull millions of Americans back up the economic lad- der. The findings also com- plicate plans by presiden- tial candidates to combat inequality because it's un- clear how tweaking tax rates on the wealthy — the Democrats largely favor in- creases, the Republicans cuts — will boost pre-tax incomes for the poorest. 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