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...early attempt at a singing career was not much easier. (When a critic panned her "flat" voice, the President warned that if they met, the critic would need a "new nose.") Still, the witty, levelheaded Margaret found her calling in 1980 when she published the best-selling Murder in the White House, the first of a series of mysteries set in the FBI, Supreme Court and other political hot spots...
...quick to list what isn't working well. Iraqi security forces remain unable to mount operations without the logistical help of U.S. forces. Al-Qaeda in Iraq is on the run, but it has not been routed, and it still enjoys free rein in some parts of the country. Murder, death threats and kidnappings are still commonplace; more than 100,000 sections of concrete car-bomb barriers now snake around Baghdad's neighborhoods. And in something of an understatement, even Petraeus calls the progress toward political reconciliation "tenuous." The largest Sunni bloc in parliament, known as the Accordance Front, walked...
...compelling for today's students. Pollster Frank Luntz gathered a focus group of New Hampshire students on the eve of the primary there, and the hour-long conversation barely touched on the hot buttons of yore: abortion, crime and affirmative action. Their world, after all, encompasses RU 486, lower murder rates and Oprah. What concerns many of them is the nature of politics: the perceived gridlock of parties, conniving of special interests and shallow biases of the media. When Obama talks broadly about changing those dynamics, what strikes some older ears as airy and substance-free hits younger voters...
...fallout from violence wreaked by alienated terrorists can create still more alienation among peaceful, moderate professionals. Martijn de Koning, an anthropologist at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World in Leiden, the Netherlands, interviewed a group of twentysomething Dutch Muslims before the 2004 murder of Theo van Gogh by a young Dutch Moroccan angry at the filmmaker's on-screen portrayal of Islamic culture. Back then, De Koning found his subjects were outraged by the fact that it was tough to be Muslim in the Netherlands. By contrast, three years on from the Van Gogh...
...Courtesies aside, Mansfield's main goal was to extract from Lady Sarah the whereabouts of missing letters between Diana and Prince Philip, Diana's former father-in-law, which he believes could explain Diana's death - or, as he sees it, murder. Previously in the inquest, Diana's confidant Simone Simmons, a self-described natural healer and clairvoyant, testified that Diana had shown her the letters, in which she said Prince Philip described Diana as a "harlot and trollop." Lady Sarah has denied ever seeing them. However, a detective investigating Diana's former butler Paul Burrell on suspicion of theft...