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...Unholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed and Forgery in the Holy Land by Nina Burleigh, a former TIME staffer who now writes for People. In fast, noir-ish prose - imagine Sam Spade in the Holy Land - Burleigh tracks her story through the twilight world of Arab grave robbers and smugglers to the glimmering salon of a billionaire collector in Mayfair whose mission, writes Burleigh, is "proving the Bible true." Past accounts of the James ossuary are fiercely partisan, written by debunkers or true believers. But Burleigh keeps her balance, and her humor, as she sifts - far more diligently...
...would Russia promise $5.4 billion to bail out Iceland, when Iceland's traditional allies weren't offering the money? After all, Russia has its own grave financial issues to deal with. Does the country really expect to be paid back in "the famous Icelandic herring, popular in Russia since Soviet times?" as Victor Tatarintsev, Russian ambassador to Iceland, noted in an interview on Russian television. More likely, this act of benevolence is being viewed as a way for Russia to help secure a bridgehead for an advance into the Arctic regions to claim the vast hydrocarbon and other mineral deposits...
...pure panic, and the lack of logic involved explains the inability of markets to find new, stable values for stocks," says Deutsche Bank euro-zone economist David Naudé. He concurs with Touati that while the credit crisis and its consequences are grave, the wider economic realities don't merit the dread that is driving market reaction - at least...
...whipping boy than his galley slave—one whose self-loathing Roth weaves with his own fascination with mortality.The book progresses under Marcus’s narration, where he reveals to the reader, after a time, that he is telling this story from beyond the grave. For Roth fans, this will come as no surprise; one of Roth’s most recent novels, “Everyman,” deals explicitly with a character taking stock of his life beginning at his own funeral. In “Indignation,” Roth explores, albeit...
...State Library of New South Wales. These documents, which include chummy correspondence with several Australian Prime Ministers, were a boon for Fingleton's biographer, Sydney journalist Greg Growden, who's written a book that would have Bradman, topical again in the centenary of his birth, turning in his grave...