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...Once guaranteed to send parents into spirals of anxiety and friends into paroxysms of envy, the Asia trek now elicits a shrugging, "Send us an e-mail when you make it to Kathmandu." Trouble is, no one seems to have told Tansy Harris, the self-absorbed heroine of Emily Barr's debut novel Backpack (Plume; 310 pages). Tansy is a glamorous young Englishwoman with glamorous friends and a glamorous media job who has no more direction in life than the location of the next line of coke. When her monstrous alcoholic mother dies, Tansy survives an overdose and decides...
...Donald Barr Chidsey, "The Wars in Barbary: Arab Piracy and the Birth of the United States Navy...
...Laden Bios, "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America" by Yossef Bodansky and Bergen's "Holy War, Inc." and 4)Relevant History, including "Five Days in London May 1940" by John Lukacs, "Pirate Utopias" by Peter Lamborn Wilson and "The Wars in Barbary" by Donald Barr Chidsey...
This is wartime, the President reminds us. The usual rules do not apply. Fair enough. But what worries some people, ranging from Bush's persistent critics at the ACLU to conservative New York Times columnist William Safire to uber-conservative U.S. Rep. Bob Barr, is this administration's propensity for overstepping centuries-old legislative procedures in the name of national security...
...Judiciary Committee, has issued a package of alternative proposals that could also provide a basis for compromise. Hearings on Ashcroft's legislation are scheduled for this week not only by Leahy's mostly moderate committee but also by the argumentative House Judiciary Committee, a body divided between conservatives like Barr and Henry Hyde and ultraliberals like Conyers and Barney Frank. Then again, there may not be that many arguments. This is one issue on which left and right are joining hands...