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...smaller-scaled idiocies as well. There is, for example, Kathy Bates selling squirrels by the roadside and exacting a terrible revenge on non-buyers. Then there's the Barbie Museum. That would be a roadside attraction devoted not to the immortal doll but to the vicious Nazi Klaus Barbie. Not to worry, though, the befuddled Jewish family (with Jon Lovitz as its addled patriarch and Kathy Najimy his bemused wife) makes its escape in style--in Hitler's onetime touring car. Best of all, there's Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Pollini, a good-natured Italian immigrant struggling hilariously with...
Across many cultures and throughout history, women have assisted births. But in the late 1970s and early '80s, when doulas were rare, obstetricians John Kennell and Marshall Klaus conducted a survey of 128 nonindustrialized, hunting-and-gathering and agricultural societies. All but one featured continuous support by other females for mothers during labor and delivery. As birthing moved to hospital settings, this element of support was lost. Kennell and Klaus found that the presence of doulas not only reinstates support but also is associated with fewer labor complications. In their book, Mothering the Mother, Kennell and Klaus compare labor...
Suddenly, Wilson's narrative jumps away from this unhappy family and back to 1941 Berlin, where an industrialist named Klaus Felsen is being persuaded, none too gently, to abandon his railroad-coupling factory and take on an important assignment for the Nazis. The Third Reich needs vast amounts of wolfram, i.e., tungsten, to use as an alloy in solid-core ammunition, essential for tank warfare, and the present supply from China will cease once Hitler breaks his nonaggression pact with Stalin. Portugal has wolfram, and Felsen speaks Portuguese, a memento from his past affair with a Brazilian woman. Ergo, Felsen...
From this point on, Wilson's novel careers along on two tracks--the present investigation in Lisbon and past Nazi activities in Portugal--that slowly but inexorably converge. Inspector Coelho, of course, knows nothing about Klaus Felsen or his murky role on behalf of the Nazis, so the reader is always several steps ahead of the fictional detective. But they are only baby steps, because the connection between Felsen's story and the murder of Catarina Oliveira remains tantalizingly unclear for much of the novel...
...Vaclav Klaus, a former free-marketeering Prime Minister, decried the de facto nationalization as a "bank robbery carried out in broad daylight." Three days after sending in the cops, the government turned IPB over to the Belgian-owned CSOB. The new supervisors found a sprawling conglomerate of some 600 interlinked companies involved in almost every kind of questionable financial practice. Of an estimated $4.6 billion in outstanding loans, probably only 20% are recoverable...