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There are always a few mix-ups. “That’s where General Mills is, isn’t it?” Sadly, Minneapolis stakes this claim, preventing us from holding the cereal Triple Crown and I always feel a tinge of guilt stemming from the almost sacrilegious box of General Mills cereal that is wedged into my cupboard...
...that Osama bin Laden and 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens has focused attention on the kingdom's role as a breeding ground for religious extremism. So former CIA agent Robert Baer's new book, Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude (Crown; 226 pages), is nothing if not timely. It offers a picture of the Saudi royal family as degenerate, dangerous and doomed...
When Ann Coulter published Slander last year, she didn't just score a surprise No. 1 best seller; she also discovered an entire new audience hungry for her notoriously sharp-tongued, unabashedly right-wing rhetoric. Now she's back with Treason (Crown Forum; 355 pages), and as TIME's Lev Grossman discovered, she has in no way mellowed with...
...grip of a preventive-war mentality. "It's an attitude that we must strike the haystack in the hope of hitting the needle." Legally, Blair has few good options. He can't guarantee to Washington that the two men would face trial in the U.K. because the Crown Prosecution Service is independent, and is likely to conclude that any fruits of their interrogations in Cuba are inadmissible. Stephen Jakobi, director of Fair Trials Abroad, which is campaigning for Begg and Abbasi, says he'd be satisfied with normal U.S. trials. Blair would probably consider that a win too, but Bush...
...from his native country in 1782 for exile in England. "I must resign myself," William wrote, "for the remaining Days of my Existence to that Solitary State which is most repugnant to my Nature." The elder Franklin had raised his son to be a loyal servant of the British Crown. He had done his job too well...