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...Keyser?s attorney Robert Litt says the prosecutors? filing ?contains numerous inaccuracies.? Litt insists Keyser never spied for Taiwan, didn?t improperly disclose classified information and fulfilled his end of the plea bargain. The government seems to disagree - and appears content to let this spy saga unfold in court...
...that slacker attitude, Rhodes, 31, this month finds himself on Granta magazine's prestigious decennial list of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists, standing on the shoulders of giants like Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie, and rubbing his own with publishing hotshots Zadie Smith and Toby Litt. Rhodes' presence there is all the more remarkable since his first novel, Timoleon Vieta Come Home (Canongate; 214 pages), is only now arriving in bookstores and is likely, he says, to be his last. The grind of writing Timoleon Vieta, Rhodes says, has cost him too much, and though...
...most of France, the traditional September rentrée represents the depressing end of vacation and a return to toil for millions of workers, students and politicians. For the nation's publishing industry, by contrast, the September rentrée littéraire is a period of excitement and expectation, holding the promise of success and sales for some, acclaim and awards for others. This year has brought a new high of activity, with the first of nearly 700 new titles already flooding bookshops - and taxing the capacity of the book-buying public to absorb them all. Literary pride...
...abuse by "cowboy" agents was great and that the letter and spirit of the Constitution do not endorse the sacrifice of privacy for security. "You could make the country safer from terror by attending every meeting at every mosque, but do you want to do that?" asks Robert Litt, a top Justice official under Janet Reno. "The question will be, What do they do and where do they go with this new power?" Polls have consistently shown a public willingness to trade some privacy for security. The harder questions are, Whose privacy, and how much, and will it actually...
When Incubus began as a high school experiment in 1991, it was a funk outfit, openly ripping off the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Primus. On 1999's Make Yourself, produced by R.E.M. veteran Scott Litt, the band dispensed with its early jamming tendencies and focused on melody, allowing Boyd's voice and lyric book to step to the front. The single Drive, the group's biggest hit to date, contains the lovely line, "Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there/With open arms and open eyes." It's not surprising that Incubus was the only major act scheduled to perform...