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...believe Ted would not have noticed and anticipated it. But the cars are sleek, Ted's house is chic and even the courthouse - in real life they're pretty scuzzy places - has a kind of burnished glow about it. We relax into envy when we want to be drawn into terror. Luxe is, I think, the enemy of our involvement. It renders passion dispassionate and turns murder into a kind of fashion statement, something we observe without really caring about...
...intriguing: the CIA will construct an identity for a corpse, a dead man who never actually existed, and pretend that he was in contact with the leader of Al-Qaeda, whom they hope to force out of hiding. However, most of the book languishes on the wholly uninteresting, poorly drawn relationship between the jaded protagonist, CIA operative Roger Ferris, and Alice Melville, a naïve charity worker who helps Palestinian refugees. What could be a thrilling story gets mired in the mundane details, particularly domestic spats between Roger and his wife Gretchen. While the tension begins to build...
Perhaps Jackie Robinson would be disappointed to know that a relatively small number of blacks still remain drawn to the game he transformed. But he would be far more determined that all Americans acknowledge the complicated history of race in this country and how it continues to influence our mores and conversations today. The fact that many of us blacks have become strangers to baseball has a lot to do with the fact that we have developed a better, clear-eyed understanding of our experience as a people. And that is something Jackie Robinson would be proud...
...Nelson says that before Faust led Radcliffe there were “very few men” supporting the Institute. But as dean she has drawn in some “major male donors within the Harvard universe” to create fellowships...
...intends to spend a further $16 million modernizing security technology at the Karni crossing that links Gaza to Israel. At present, some 30 to 40 trucks are manually searched each day, severely restricting the economic viability of export-oriented agriculture and dairy operations in Gaza. A new plan, drawn up by U.S. Army general Keith Dayton, envisages installing the same X-ray machines used to screen trucks at U.S. borders at Karni. By allowing up to 400 commercial trucks to pass from Gaza to Israel each day, the U.S. hopes to stimulate the Palestinian economy...