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...Ball? A Brick NBA game ball creates hoopla A new microfiber basketball replaces the old leather model this NBA season, which starts next week. Players are crying foul. Shaq says it's "terrible." Others gripe that it's slippery when...
...Toscanini’s regular takes his MacBook to the minimalist outside tables, where he can pretend to read (but actually just be seen with) post-colonialist Prof. Homi K. Bhabha’s “The Location of Culture.” In addition to his leather manbag stuffed with Marlboro Reds and Saturday night show tickets for the Middle East, he sports an ironic Communist slogan T-shirt. But don’t be fooled by the façade of pretension; he’s actually quite approachable—when it comes to post...
Parker's characters are so tough and self-assured, you want to grab the lapels of their leather jackets and tell them, as Max Eastman once told Hemingway, to come out from behind the false hair on their chest. But Parker is always a breezy read, and in this, his 34th Spenser mystery, the macho posturing is tempered by a plot that turns on his hero's vulnerability and one of his good deeds gone bad. A runaway he rescued from a life of low-rent prostitution (by putting her in the care of a high-priced madam...
...soft-sided bags, opt for materials like ballistic or Cordura nylons, which stand up to slashing and tearing better than leather or canvas. They also provide more protection from weather. The REI Tech Beast ($215) is made of abrasion-, moisture- and tear-resistant ballistic nylon, and the wear points are reinforced with Hypalon patches to better bear rough-and-tumble conditions. The luxe new Tourbach line from Victorinox Swiss Army ($260-$700) boasts a Swiss-engineered fabric called Performax that is tearproof and grime and water repellent...
...Grey says he then embarked on basic "shoe-leather reporting," criss-crossing between Washington, the Middle East, Europe and Pakistan over the next few years. Ultimately he detailed 89 renditions involving 87 prisoners, several of whom he says had not previously been documented. But Grey says he believes "hundreds" of others have not been identifed. In interviews, former CIA agents who had worked in the renditions program told Grey the numbers of renditions were "in the low hundreds." Goss told the Senate Intelligence Committee in February last year that with rendered prisoners, "once out of our control, there is only...