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...with the occupying forces. But as resistance to the U.S. intensified, Abbas found himself in even greater danger. A month after he stopped working with the Americans, his name showed up on a list of "traitors" being circulated among anti-U.S. insurgents. Then a grenade exploded in his garden, and someone scrawled ABBAS MUST BE KILLED on the wall of his home...
...stranger to the University, Lentz received both his masters and doctorate in Islamic art from Harvard. He assumed his post at the Smithsonian in 2000, heading up its Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Museum of African...
...warm spring morning in 1876, A well-dressed young man accosts a pretty young woman out walking with her governess in a public garden in Moscow. When she rebuffs him, he whips out a revolver, spins the cylinder and blows his own head off. It's a barbaric practice, we learn, that's known in Russia as American roulette...
...novel, the entire world is a mystery. Christopher is autistic. He can't understand ordinary jokes. He can't read other people's facial expressions. When people touch him, he panics and screams. So when he stumbles on the corpse of his neighbor's dog Wellington impaled on a garden fork, it's just one more mystery that needs solving. "In a murder mystery novel," the young man tells us, with his permanently straight face, "someone has to work out who the murderer is and then catch them. It is a puzzle." Indeed...
...take personal responsibility for everything I say." President George W. Bush, at a Rose Garden press conference, when asked how a now widely discredited claim that Iraq sought to buy uranium in Africa made it into his January State of the Union address...