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...Even then, his words were carefully chosen: Bush did not say World War III would be the consequence of Iran attaining a nuclear weapon; he said, "If you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from hav[ing] the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon...
This was the year fantasy and reality met, snuggled and produced a litter of hybrids. On shelves, the travel book Hav is fiction disguised as fact, while crime thriller The Medici Conspiracy is fact that reads like fiction. In cinemas, Borat was a make-believe man out to reveal the true America; United 93 was an awful truth that could only be revealed through make-believe. Here are our picks of 2006: real stories, tall tales and somethings-in-between. [an error occurred while processing this directive]1. Jan Morris, Hav...
Welsh travel writer Morris has described nearly every interesting place on the planet. Unique among them is Hav, the Levantine city-state she put on the map two decades ago with her first novel Last Letters from Hav - and which exists only in her mind. The author's word-portraits of Hav's picturesque streets and quaint customs made the place indelible in the annals of travel. Sadly, it was largely destroyed by foreign invaders in 1985 and rebuilt as an efficient, soulless resort destination. Morris' latest, perhaps most insightful book yet, titled simply Hav, helpfully reprints the entire...
...task more deftly than Jan Morris, 79, the England-born, thoroughly Welsh writer and historian. In more than 40 books and countless essays over the past half-century, she has marshaled reportorial insight and literary flair to describe nearly every interesting place on the planet. Unique among them is Hav, the microscopic, Levantine city-state she first put on the map 21 years ago with [an error occurred while processing this directive] Last Letters from Hav - and which she revisits in her latest, perhaps most insightful book yet, titled simply Hav. Located south of the Caucasus, north of Turkey...
...much better now, thanks. I can stand, walk, even drive a car. I have this Honda Civic Type R, a special, souped-up model with a very powerful engine. I've always loved fast cars, this one more than most of them. I even wrote it into Hav. It's in the scene in the tunnel [once the romantic principal route to Hav, but now sadly trackless and unused]. Oops, Elizabeth has just handed me a note. Shall I read it to you? It says, 'I'm going out to buy some superglue.' O.K. Well, now what were we talking...