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...People like the 135 kg, chain-smoking Van Gogh could make that difficult. Always a provocateur, he had taken verbal swipes at virtually every Dutch minority. Three cases had been brought against him for slurs against Muslims and Jews; he was convicted of anti-Semitism in 1990, attacked Catholics in his spare time, and routinely referred to Muslims with an unpublishable epithet. Wilders, now under police protection, defends him. "Van Gogh was provocative, but in a democracy you fight words with words, not bullets," he says...
...DIED. THEODORE TAYLOR, 79, theoretical physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory during the cold war who specialized in designing smaller, more powerful atom bombs - and then became a fierce antinuclear campaigner; in Silver Spring, Maryland. His "Davy Crockett" - a 23-kg device that fit in a suitcase - outpowered the lab's 4,091-kg "Little Boy" bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. In the mid-1960s Taylor, alarmed at the proliferation of the devices, became a self-described "nuclear dropout." "My work at Los Alamos had been so intellectually stimulating but so insane," he said...
...spicy meatball. Weighing in at a positively caloric 2.3 kg and 1,056 pages, this doorstop of a tome aims, in the words of editor Ruth Reichl, to be "a book that wants to live in your kitchen." For the most part, it succeeds: this is the sort of cookbook you want by your side whether you're attempting cucumber sandwiches...
...travel guidebooks to megalithic monuments. The Megalithic European (Element; 496 pages) is his second book of big stones, a companion to The Modern Antiquarian, in which he chronicled the remnants of neolithic Britain. Published in 1998, it sold more than 30,000 copies?not bad for a 2.3 - kg slab of a book with a $50 price tag. Like its predecessor, The Megalithic European is an immensely practical - as long as it's not in your rucksack - gazetteer of more than 300 sites stretching from northern Denmark to Malta, from Crete to Portugal. Entries are sprinkled with 800 photographs, copious...
...inspiration for generations of home cooks. Now, after 60 years, the best of that advice and more than 1,200 of the magazine's recipes have been revamped for modern kitchens in The Gourmet Cookbook (Houghton Mifflin). It's a spicy meatball. Weighing in at a positively caloric 2.3 kg and 1,056 pages, this doorstop of a tome aims, in the words of editor Ruth Reichl, to be "a book that wants to live in your kitchen." For the most part, it succeeds: this is the sort of cookbook you want by your side whether you're attempting cucumber...