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...time. Jealousy-riddled Helen and flighty Julia are lovers - but for how long? Helen's ex, Kay, after being fully incorporated into the war effort as an ambulance driver, finds herself marginalized for her sexual preferences. Vivien, who runs a lonely-hearts agency with Helen, worries about her brother, Duncan, recently released from prison. The book opens in 1947, jumps to 1944 and then back again to 1941, because Waters began a story set in postwar London, but found herself "completely sucked into" her research on the war. "I thought that actually what's interesting here...
...friends and family stepped into action. Police say one defendant's girlfriend, with her toddler in tow, went to the teenager's house and told his father that the boy would "get it" for "snitching on my family." The next day, according to the police, a co-defendant's brother cornered the father at a store and said his teenager would "be dead before [the trial]". The girlfriend and the brother were both charged under the new law. Rather than face 20 years for witness intimidation, the brother struck a deal with prosecutors last week to testify against the girlfriend...
...Elliott would have us believe that resolving world conflicts is a simple choice between an American Big Brother and a power vacuum in which rogue nuclear states (he cites the threat of Iran) would evolve. That's too simple. Conflicts are most wisely resolved by a multinational process that listens to and understands the subtleties of cultural differences and proposes solutions that build trust and democratic consensus. Besides lacking the broad knowledge necessary, single states are concerned primarily with national interests. As de facto world policeman since the end of the cold war, the U.S. has exhibited both problems. Given...
...little less than two weeks before the Paradise gig, Blanks. had a spot more to their liking. They headlined at Brooklyn’s Underwater Lounge to promote the New York City release of their EP, “Infinite Lives.” Le-Khac’s brother booked the venue, and 200 of the band’s friends and fans turned out in force. Boch recalls: “Our friends, and a lot of Harvard students spending intersession in New York, attended the show. We packed the club.”While the Paradise...
...mail fanatics are discussing the BlackBerry-killer software introduced by Microsoft at the 3GSM mobile-phone conference in Barcelona, I want to talk about an e-mail-ready phone that's just hitting the market - T-Mobile's SDA. The carrier launched it this week, along with a big brother, the MDA Pocket PC. Both phones run versions of Windows Mobile 5.0, though the SDA is no larger than a typical candy-bar phone. Like standard phones, it has no touch screen ? you operate it with buttons; unlike standard phones, it has an HTML browser, can juggle multiple e-mail...