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...DARA Neighborhoods (Atlantic) The cornetist-guitarist-vocalist makes music that doesn't just grow on you; it grows around you, locking you in an inescapable embrace, like an oak tree that's knotted around a fence. Once his magical blend of jazz and blues gets hold of the listener, there's no escape--and no wanting to leave. Dara, who has played sideman to jazz greats, has become a master...
...hands. Interrogating prisoners can be deadly dangerous; it was in just such circumstances that CIA agent Johnny Micheal Spann died two Sundays ago. "They are people who don't walk up and volunteer their names and identification numbers with a sample of DNA," noted Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "They blend into the other prisoners. It's a messy business...
...region. He managed to save enough money on food and housing that he was also able to visit Tanzania, where he climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, and Madagascar, where he met the only Korean family on the whole island. Familiar with the Korean food his own family eats, Albert tasted a blend of Korean and Madagasci cuisine, in which unripe bananas replaced traditional potatoes. More recently, he flew to Qatar courtesy of Harvard grants and the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development to follow trade negotiations for the organization. Interviewing delegates and writing for a daily newspaper, Albert took an active...
...stock into a mix of diversified stock-and-bond mutual funds as soon as they are old enough to do so. Similarly, if your employer gives you options to buy company stock, don't buy and hold the stock; cash it in and invest the proceeds in a diverse blend of stocks and bonds or mutual funds...
...Vidiadhar is also a great prose stylist and innovator. In The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World, he has evolved a signature blend of autobiography, artifice and journalism that tests (even by today's liberal definitions) the limits of conventional fiction. Half A Life (Knopf; 211 pages), the latest hybrid, begins in colonial India with a droll anecdote. The son of a Brahmin family marries a low-caste woman and forfeits his social standing. He is a maharaja's tax clerk who, influenced by Gandhi's politics of poverty, makes false account entries in favor of poor...