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...residents rather than by an employee...There we stumbled onto a scene that has been permanently imprinted on my brain: five limp, totally beleaguered residents - all women - were seated around a television set whose screen was pure snow; one of the women was clutching a doll whose single eye was a clothes button...
...Bird's-Eye View. Joining the London Eye and the Singapore Flyer before it, the Southern Star observation wheel is Melbourne's newest tourist attraction. A ride in one of the 21 cabins of the 394-ft. wheel (about 40 stories high) offers views of Victoria Harbour and takes about half an hour. The fare is $20 for adults and $12 for kids. Sudholz Street, Melbourne...
...eye-catching set is nice. But in an advertising market that's softer than a knuckleball, baseball realizes it's a horrible time to be launching any kind of business. "This economy is not good for anybody; it would be silly to say anything else," says Tim Brosnan, MLB's executive vice president in charge of business...
...Tragedy From the beginning of the recent Mumbai massacre, Indians in India and abroad never doubted Pakistan's hand in the ghastly attacks [Dec. 15]. President Richard Nixon's famous "tilt" toward Pakistan, decades of American support for Pakistan's military dictators and America's turning a blind eye to Pakistan's involvement in a long series of terrorist activities against India have all borne their fruit in the past decade in the form of worldwide Islamic terrorism. These dreadful attacks will continue unless international pressure is brought to bear on Pakistan's elected government to bring its military under...
What Crumley represents to me is a seriousness of purpose and an ability rare among the major late 20th century private-eye writers to follow Raymond Chandler's lead without unintentionally parodying him. The tendency of the great P.I. writers who preceded Crumley had been to write about the same couple of big cities. Crumley wrote of the Southwest and inadvertently opened the door to a regionalism that has since exploded in mystery fiction, from Robert B. Parker's Boston to Sara Paretsky's Chicago...