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...deal with the place, (and more to the point, if you live in the place) you learn to accept a great deal of uncertainty, unresolved problems [and] unfinished thoughts." Most frustratingly, we never get to hear the story of how O manages to escape his own tale's bullet-riddled climax. That, we can only hope, is fodder for another book. Church says there's a second in the works: in Inspector O, the author has crafted a complex character with rough charm to spare, and in eternally static North Korea, he has a setting that will fascinate readers...
...case you've missed it, Australian tennis is anchored in the Bay of Nowhere. After Hewitt, there's Chris Guccione (ranked 107, though with a bullet), Mark Philippoussis (122, injured again and out of the Open), then three guys around 160. One of these players, most likely the big-serving lefty Guccione, might string together a few wins in the first week to give locals something to get excited about, but anything beyond that would be astonishing...
...knew every word Kerry had said and remixed those words for effect, chose McCain. Matt Rhoades, 31, the former Republican National Committee research director and master of the invisibly planted story, is going Romney. Brian Jones, 36, his former boss, went McCain. Most are protégés of Steve (Bullet) Schmidt, 36, the imposing workaholic who ran the 24-hour war room for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. Schmidt taught the cadre--some of whom are now in charge of large staffs at the '08 campaigns--that the news cycle ends with the 11:35 p.m. comedy shows...
...This is the British library," says Fanah, indicating a shot-up shell of gray rubble splashed with RPG marks and heavy-caliber bullet holes. "I had a library card and I used to come here and read my novels. Roots - that really affected me. And James Hadley Chase. He writes about violence. With romance in between. I used to read him all book in seven or eight hours...
...suspected Mahdi Army houses in neighborhoods like Shula, just north of Ghazaliya. Sometimes they uncover arms caches and make arrests. More often the doors they kick in lead to empty rooms where Mahdi Army fighters have left only tiny traces of themselves, such as undelivered threat letters and spent bullet casings...