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...Washington Institute for Near East Policy report, authored by Institute fellow Hillary Mann, found that students from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Syria and the Sudan do not undergo sufficiently detailed background checks to dispel the threat of terrorism...
...addition, Mann wrote, the U.S. government does not adequately monitor students from these countries to see if they are studying such sensitive fields as nuclear engineering, chemical engineering and other potentially weaponsrelated subjects...
...Golden's depiction of Gion during and after World War II is superb. He is even confident enough to have some fun--he includes a wonderful brief passage about Mameha's past encounters with various luminaries who had visited Japan. "She poured sake for the great German writer Thomas Mann, who afterward told her a long, dull story through an interpreter," Golden reports, as well as for Ernest Hemingway, "who got very drunk and said the beautiful red lips on her white face made him think of blood in the snow...
...disappointed that Mother Teresa was not on your cover. Her beauty, character and spirit leave glamour and the royals in the shadows. CAROLYN MANN Mechanicsburg...
...Mann channeled these earlier minor eruptions into great cleansing explosions. In The Naked Spur, Stewart is a bounty hunter who is shot, rolled down a rocky cliff, betrayed by partners, tortured by fever into screaming delirium. He uses the spur of the title to dig handholds up a sheer cliff, then embeds it in the face of his prisoner (Robert Ryan). Some fans of Stewart the gentle child-man do not like to see him become a snarling avenger. But that is what happens when the sense of one's own virtue is affronted. American innocence fairly begs...