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AMONG THE TOP 20 PAPERBACKS on USA Today's best-seller list is The Scarlet Letter--the Cliffs Notes version. Bibliophiles who purchase that slim volume in lieu of dozing over the original will get a much clearer view of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 tale of heroism and hypocrisy than those visiting the new movie adaptation. It's a lugubrious, often ludicrous, wallow...
Until the events of February 1992, she and her husband were well-regarded agents. Klipfel had been nominated four times for a top women's law-enforcement award. Casali had been decorated for heroism. "They were not only good agents; they were exceptional agents," says Robert Sanders, a former assistant director of ATF and now an attorney who specializes in defending gun owners against the agency...
McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans--distinguished or infamous--whose interbraided destinies make up the story of The Nightingale's Song (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a tough and fascinating study of war, heroism, politics and the American psyche at a profound cultural divide. The other protagonists: Robert McFarlane, John Poindexter, Oliver North and James Webb...
...McCain, now the senior Senator from Arizona, is one of five notable or notorious Annapolis graduates and Vietnam veterans whose interbraided destinies make up Robert Timberg's "The Nightingale's Song" (Simon & Schuster; 543 pages; $27.50), a story thatTIME's Lance Morrowfinds a "tough and fascinating study of war, heroism, politics and the American psyche at a profound cultural divide." Previous TIME Daily Campaign...
...their icy cabin. And Hanks provides the anchor. His Lovell--as strong, faithful and emotionally straightforward as Forrest Gump--carries the story like a precious oxygen backpack. His resourcefulness gives Lovell strength; his gift for conveying worry gives the film its humanity and a purchase on ordinary-Joe heroism...