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Original Sin is wicked. It's enticing. It is, in fact, a beautifully calculated read, proving once again P.D. James' mastery of her craft. After the release of The Children of Men in 1993, the author's first non-mystery novel, some fans worried she might have abandoned the cloak-and-dagger genre for good. Original Sin proves them resoundingly wrong. Not only does it mark the return of James' ever-popular detective, Adam Dalgleish, it is one of the most mystery-like of her mysteries...
...leading up to the film's centerpiece, the massacre. There is an amusing bit where Margot, who refuses to consummate the marriage with Henri, goes out into the street to look for a man with whom to spend her wedding night. She wanders exquisitely lit rues wearing an indigo cloak and a domino, a man hungry diva on the hunt. The camp value of the scene cannot be underestimated. She runs into La Mole, a sensitive Protestant stud (Vincent Perez, last seen warming the cockles of Catherine Deneuve's heart in "Indochine") and has passionate sex against an alley wall...
...flyer also claimed that the conference's speakers are "hiding under a cloak of academic respectability" by choosing to speak at Harvard...
...when questioned about the professed peaceful nature of the rally, League spokesperson Thomas Downing said only that "our intention is to build as large a possible a demonstration in order to stop Operation Rescue....They're trying to use a cloak of academia to promote their terrorist views...
...former mine field on the two countries' border -- Clinton made a peace offering to uneasy Jordanian Muslims. "We respect Islam," he announced, to loud applause from at least one side of the river Jordan. That appeared to set up his next line, a condemnation of Islamic terrorists "who cloak themselves in the rhetoric of religion and nationalism . . . You cannot succeed, you will not succeed, you must not succeed, for you are the past, not the future." (Some Jordanians, in spite of their popular king, have praised Hamas, the group responsible for recent attacks on Israelis.) The treaty itself, which formally...