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...were American. Al-Jazeera and CNN were able to film the event, which was carefully timed to coincide with prime-time breakfast television stateside, but were ordered to block out the sound of Saddam's voice. And there were no defense lawyers in the courtroom. Saddam remains under U.S. lock and key. He may be denied the right to choose his own lawyers, though his first wife, Sajida, has assembled a multinational team, some of whom want to put the U.S. on trial. The Bush Administration has tainted Saddam's trial already. An international tribunal created by the Security Council...
...tantalizing inner complexity. The tall, soft-spoken Virginia squire who loved fine wines and whose enormous book collection became the core of the Library of Congress was no unfeeling, detached egghead but a passionate, somewhat elusive human being. When his wife Martha died in 1782, he wrapped a lock of her hair with a scrap of paper containing an excerpt from the couple's favorite novel, Laurence Sterne's comic masterpiece, Tristram Shandy, and stashed the token in his desk. Four years later, while serving in Paris as Minister to France, he fell in love with a married painter, Maria...
...Bundy had been my partner at the crisis clinic in Seattle, where we took calls from people in emotional turmoil. We worked together for about a year and a half. We were good together. We saved lives. Every Sunday and Tuesday night for a year, I was locked up alone with Ted Bundy and feeling perfectly safe. I was 34, and he was 23. I thought of him as a younger brother. He used to walk me to my car late at night and say, "Be sure you lock the doors. I don't want anything bad to happen...
...movie's trailer, the bewigged action hero entreats a comely blond to become his seventh wife: "One for each day of the week. Do Tuesdays work for you?" The Governor's office declined to comment on his role in the film. California's crucial polygamist vote, though, seems a lock...
...jurisdiction, but he becomes entangled in it aboard the Leviathan, a massive luxury liner cruising to Calcutta; Littleby's killer is known to be aboard, as is the Parisian inspector following his or her trail. All that is the setup for a ravishing jewel box of a mystery--the lock of which Fandorin gingerly, joyfully picks--and an homage to Christie, whose Death on the Nile is the mother ship of all nautical mysteries. Akunin also knows his Arthur Conan Doyle, and his Fandorin likes to indulge in showy displays of Holmesian observation, especially when lady passengers are around...