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...nine men are buried in a stony field beyond an orchard of pomegranate trees in the village of Zambar, in eastern Afghanistan. Above their graves, multi-colored flags ripple in the mountain wind - deceptively cheerful reminders of the black day when Australia's Special Air Service came to this valley...
Scottoline begins her day shoveling manure in a stable for her four horses. She likes to ride Buddy, which she describes lovingly as "a low-down, dirty, Pocono Mountain 4-H pony." She turns 50 in July. "It's a big deal, although 50 is the new 40," she says. Her second marriage over, she shares her home with four dogs, which pad along after her like an obedient pack. Many authors write for a few hours in the morning, but Scottoline works throughout the day and into the night, with breaks for daytime television ("Oprah is my girl crush...
...distance of a husband and wife who have become strangers. But Liman's MacGyver-like improvisational style can come at a price. "It was a very hard shoot," he admits. "I don't necessarily go into a movie with the characters figured out." He built an entire snow-covered mountain on a Fox sound stage, then scrapped it when he decided the mountain scene was all wrong for Mr. Smith's personality. He also had to scrap the two main villains and held two reshoots after the movie wrapped. "I'm extremely tenacious," Liman says. "The movie becomes the most...
Room 117 is a Pop Art pastiche of a murder scene. Room 105 has a mock surveillance camera tracking visitors to the bathroom. And Room 409 is a shrine to Swiss mountain sprite Heidi. This is Copenhagen's Hotel Fox, tel: (45) 3313 3000?comprising the work of 21 designers from four continents. They were brought together as part of a marketing exercise by Volkswagen, which asked the group to transform the former Park Hotel?a 61-room property in the center of the Danish capital?into a venue for the three-week launch of the automaker's latest runabout...
When President Bush returned from his bike ride last week carrying I am Charlotte Simmons under his arm, observers seemed more worried about whether he had completed the novel than whether the Leader of the Free World should be reading and mountain biking simultaneously. The President was supposed to have finished Tom Wolfe's critique of political correctness on college campuses months ago, so why was he hanging on to it now? White House aides were quick to put minds at ease. Bush's biking partner for the day, Mike Wood, had borrowed the book-which includes ample accounts...