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...cold, wet afternoon Shah decided he'd had enough of London. The result was The Caliph's House, a lively account of how the travel writer moved his pregnant wife and young daughter to Casablanca, buying a decrepit Arabian Nights complex once owned by a real caliph. Shah encountered slothful house-renovation crews and irascible neighbors, but also had to dodge gangsters, suicide bombers, plagues of rats and - worst of all - jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans believe are hazards of daily life. He learned to deal with the jinns the Moroccan way, sprinkling drops of his blood...
FIRED. Judith Regan, 53, controversial book publisher; by Harper- Collins, a unit of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.; after weeks of disastrous publicity over the planned, then scrapped, publication of If I Did It, O.J. Simpson's hypothetical account of how he would have committed the 1994 murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman; in Los Angeles...
Someone had tried to wire $400 from my MasterCard to an account in Bosnia. The transaction raised red flags at Western Union, which refused the transfer. Still, I was advised to shut down my credit card immediately. I called my bank, which had already taken that step--though not before nearly $2,000 in fraudulent charges had been put through in the hours since I had gone...
...title says it all. This is a complete account of the arrogance and fecklessness of the Bush Administration during the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq and of the predictable disaster that followed. Ricks gets his most damning recollections from the military officers whose warnings that Iraq would be no cakewalk were brushed aside by civilian bosses. Depressing reading, and essential...
Twelve years after his wife and her friend were murdered, O.J. Simpson, who, you may recall, was accused of their murders, suggested he was no longer in mourning by writing a fictional account of their deaths, titled If I Did It. He also agreed to do a Fox TV interview with his publisher, Judith Regan. After an outcry from, really, practically everyone, the book was pulled from stores and the TV interview canceled...