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...DaVinci Code. Langdon achieved international renown a quarter century after philosophy professor Homer Kelly graced the pages of Jane Langdon’s 1978 Murder in Memorial Hall. Chase’s economics department colleague Henry Spearman plays amateur investigator extraordinare in the 1986 novel Fatal Equlibrium. But smart and sassy Nikki Chase shatters gender and color barriers to become the first fictional African-American female Harvard professor-cum-sleuth...
...DIED. HUBERT SELBY JR., 75, former merchant marine who wrote novels thick with drugs, violence and human failings, including Last Exit to Brooklyn and Requiem for a Dream; in Los Angeles. While working on a freighter at the age of 18, Selby contracted a nearly fatal case of tuberculosis, and during his convalescence he developed a taste for literature and addictions?later kicked?to alcohol and morphine. His 1964 novel Last Exit drew critical praise for its realistic portrayal of doomed prostitutes, dejected transvestites and predatory ex-cons, and was also scorned for its graphic depictions of rape, beatings...
...sense of humor is fatal in politics,” David R. Slavitt says dryly, in his usual cynical tone. This November, he’d like to prove that maxim wrong...
Looking back, I didn't like the vendor's furtive, beady eyes from the get-go?but such misgivings are swatted aside when you're on the emotional roller coaster that is house hunting. For a fatal moment my heart ruled my head, and I ended up entangled in every expatriate's nightmare...
...Americans have a right to know, however, what went wrong and how future attacks might be prevented. Whatever the outcome of the investigation, one can say that although the Bush Administration went all the way to Iraq in search of weapons of mass destruction, it failed to realize the fatal errors committed right here in the White House. SRINIVAS BALLA Fairfax...