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...Anita Hamilton...
Stan Moore—named last year’s ECAC Coach of the Year while serving as Colgate’s interim head man—presents yet another viable option as he would return to his assistant’s post in Hamilton should he stay...
Holmes haunts The Hamilton Case (Little, Brown; 307 pages) as well, a miniature masterpiece of a mystery by Michelle de Kretser, who lives in Australia but was born on the island of Sri Lanka. The Hamilton Case is set there, back when it was the English colony of Ceylon--"a useful bauble," De Kretser writes, "fingered and pocketed by the Portuguese, Dutch and British in turn." Our hero is Sam Obeysekere, a Ceylonese lawyer educated at Oxford who, with his genteel Western airs, is seemingly bent on out-Englishing the English. His story takes some time to reveal itself...
...killed Hamilton? The closer the novel comes to its conclusion, the more crowded it becomes with possible solutions. The murderers are multiple, the motives numberless, the conspirators legion. Obeysekere fails to grasp a truth mastered by all these writers in different ways: that mystery is not the fate of the unfortunate few; it's not confined to stormy nights and remote houses and crime scenes. It is the condition in which we live, and sometimes the all-knowing detective arrives too late to wrap up the loose ends or not at all. "Time never simplifies--it unravels and complicates...
...purges signal that corporate boards and shareholders across Europe are fast catching up with the U.S. in refusing to tolerate scandal, sustained losses or other indications of poor management. In a study published last year of 2,500 publicly traded companies, consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton found a sharp increase in CEO turnover--and it is Europe's chief executives who are the biggest losers. From 1995 to 2002, the frequency of CEO succession in Europe increased 192%, compared with a rise of just 2% in North America, where company bosses have traditionally enjoyed less job security...