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...street, machine guns slung casually by their sides. At the same time, though, wives follow their husbands in the street and women are not supposed to make eye contact with men. A skirt that falls just below the knee will draw whistles and disapproving stares from across the Nile, but Britney Spears and Kelis dominate even the Egyptian music video channels. These ironies struck me as simultaneously amusing...
...Harvard-Yale rivalry proved no match for true love and the two were married in 1991. One year later they saw the birth of their first child, a son named Nile...
...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. "I have developed my powers of observation and analysis with the help of special exercises," he preens...
...beginning of this academic year Harvard Medical School received $45 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to build a new biodefense research center. The facility will initially house nine research projects working to develop vaccines and treatments for anthrax, SARS, botulism, West Nile virus, and other of the world’s most dangerous pathogens...
...short stories. He could be an excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, and earned his greatest movie renown as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, as in the film of Death on the Nile. His spirit was essentially impish (as on a comedy album for which he provided all the voices and sound effects); his greatest role was Peter Ustinov, inexhaustible raconteur. The title of his 1977 autobiography summed up the world's opinion of this engaging, capacious talent: Dear...