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Garcia Abrego is a prize trophy in Mexico's campaign against drug dealing. For most of the past 10 years, he has been serving the Colombian cartels by smuggling their cocaine from Mexico into the U.S., distributing drugs in half a dozen American cities and earning as much as $2 billion a year in the process. Ruthless, violent and vain (last year he underwent an operation to trim back his bulbous nose), he spent millions each month bribing a network of corrupt officials in the government. Those payments made him untouchable during the administration of former President Carlos Salinas...
...newest pseudoscientific fad, recovered memory. "We should not be dragging people through the courts on folklore," protests psychology professor Elizabeth Loftus. Well, folklore reigned in Wenatchee, Washington--Has anyone checked the state water supply?--site of perhaps the most notorious such case. There, Pastor Robert Roberson and about a dozen parishioners were said to have lined up to have sex with young children in front of the altar while shouting, "Hallelujah, there goes the devil...
Callow's book, which ends in 1942, the year after Kane, follows half a dozen earlier Welles biographies and precedes by a few months yet another, David Thomson's eagerly awaited Rosebud. Callow, a crafty English actor (he played the ebullient, doomed gay man in Four Weddings and a Funeral), excels at what must have been his most frustrating task: analyzing theater work he could not see for himself...
...read Primary Colors, I built my own code book--a list of the characters matched with their real-life counterparts. Around page 90 I gave up in exhaustion, having deciphered three dozen names (an insider's Who's Who that includes Grunwald, James Carville, Harold Ickes, David Wilhelm, Stan Greenberg, Bob Kerrey, Tom Harkin, Paul Tsongas and Mario Cuomo). Some of the portraits are so deliciously vicious, I can only assume the author is settling personal scores. Take this description of the fictional stand-in for Hillary's much feared close friend Susan Thomases: "She was awful beyond imagining...
...could change the course of astronomy. "This is extraordinarily important," says astronomer Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "This is the first glimmering we have that normal solar systems exist beyond our own." It is sure to trigger a rush to find new planets. Indeed, half a dozen teams around the world are already looking. And in an address to the astronomers a few hours after Marcy's talk, NASA administrator Daniel Goldin announced a new program whose goal, he says, will be "not only detecting but taking direct images of Earthlike worlds, right down to oceans, continents...