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This cover shows unwavering focus, from the main title in giant gold block letters to the artistic rendering of the man himself looming over the authors’ names. Then there’s the red background, a not-so-subtle homage to the “little red book.” Apparently it’s a national bestseller, and Time Magazine seemed to like it. Plus, who wouldn’t want “the unknown story” on one of the world’s all-time most notorious dictators...
...Yorker, explains how he and his wife decided to raise their children in New York, a city that, in his eyes, has become “a children’s city.” Gopnik’s descriptions of children’s gyms on each block in some neighborhoods and strollers that crowd the sidewalk present a vision of New York from the point of view of both child and parent...
Gopnik also compares life in New York and Paris. His description of the difference between getting a taxi in each city is wonderfully observant and witty. Parisians, apparently, line up civilly at designated taxi lines on each block, while New Yorkers battle it out in a free-for-all. Gopnik’s vivid account of the way New Yorkers step in front of each other in the search for a cab, slyly avoiding eye contact, is spot...
...campaign of a thousand cuts is under way, and for what? Chirac doesn't want a "rupture" from his self-preserving balancing act between right and left, which has left French society in aspic for the last 11 years. Does he want to block Sarkozy badly enough to countenance a Socialist victory? The next two months should yield an answer. But no one should put it past...
...scatter leaflets, crude photocopies bearing death threats or diatribes against "Siamese infidels." He quickly graduates to vandalism?for example, burning the Thai flags that villagers are ordered by the authorities to display outside their homes?and then to actual militant attacks, acting as a lookout or helping to block roads with felled trees or burning tires. Later, he might plant a bomb in a teashop or other public place, which others will remotely detonate. Later still, he might remotely detonate it himself...