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...Cinque is dead. It's the leitmotif and only real truth in Helen Garner's true-crime account, Joe Cinque's Consolation (Picador; 328 pages). He was the good-natured son of Italian migrants who moved from Newcastle to Canberra to live with his sexy law- student girlfriend. She is Anu Singh, the indulged daughter of Sydney doctors whose eating disorders and Prozac popping saw her charge reduced to manslaughter, and who walked away with four years in jail and a masters' degree in criminology. A decade ago, in The First Stone, Garner lifted the lid off a famous sexual...
...house bearing gifts of Danish pastries. As her own father says, "Beautiful girl! Beautifully dressed! Who went to clubs!" This is a story filled with exclamation points. Unfortunately, it isn't one the author can fully tell. With access only to Cinque's grieving parents, an increasingly "cranky" Garner fills out her narrative with personal asides, briefly considers fictionalizing events, and ends up reading Crime and Punishment...
...Cinque's death, she concludes, "was not a convenient screen on to which I could project sorrows of my own ? It was not even 'a story.' It was real." Yet reality is the grist of good journalism. Is it too much to ask of Garner to piece it all together? She wasn't present at Joe Cinque's last supper, but there were plenty of witnesses who were. And what exactly happened during the rest of the groggy weekend it took for him to die? Instead, Garner writes to the newly paroled Singh: "I wanted to ask her about...
...Petraeus will need all the friends he can garner once Iraq's sovereignty is transferred to Yawar's government on July 1. Barely three months after Petraeus returned home to Cornwall, N.Y. after a year's command in Iraq, President Bush sent the general back to Baghdad in late April to help salvage a mission that was turning into a mounting political disaster for Washington. Petraeus's brief visit had been billed as an "assessment" of the Iraqi forces. But its mission was far more serious. Weeks of all-out armed revolt in Fallujah and the Shiite southern cities...
...which rotated between freshmen Bobby Latessa and Jonathan Spiker, sophomore J.T. Young and seniors Brandon Kauffman and Jantzen. But there was only so much Jantzen—who spent most of the year at 149 lbs.—could do; he was the only Crimson wrestler to garner points during every dual meet...