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...Booker Prize three years ago, the cunning Australian built a palace of fiction from the "true story" of a legend, the Aussie outlaw Ned Kelly. For My Life as a Fake (Knopf; 266 pages), his point of departure is an even more intricate falsehood, the Ern Malley affair...
...Boykin Affair...
...affair of the presidential ears reaches astonishing proportions without gaining in clarity." Le Monde, French daily, articulating the growing concern over President Jacques Chirac's hearing...
...feud: At the BSkyB shareholders' meeting last Friday, Daniel Summerfield of U.S. pension fund CalPERS and British fund USS demanded that 72-year-old chairman Rupert Murdoch resign because of his recent installation of his 30-year-old son James as chief executive. Critics say BSkyB is a family affair too close to the elder's News Corporation. Murdoch Sr. allowed that there was "a suspicion of possible nepotism" but said he's not leaving. "You have an arrogance ... that is completely appalling," said another investor, who envisioned decisions "being made over breakfast." But BSkyB won all resolutions. James...
There is, in this affair, neither chance nor coincidence; everything was meticulously planned, organized, then executed...