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...written by an American. "It's starting to fit in more with the loner who has a Ph.D. in microbiology," says an investigator. "It doesn't look like someone who has been educated in the Middle East." The writing, adds another agent, "looks like what I learned with a nun beating my hand." But the hijackers had worked hard to blend in and hide in plain sight too. And no one was eager to underestimate their cunning again...
...written by an American. "It's starting to fit in more with the loner who has a Ph.D. in microbiology," says an investigator. "It doesn't look like someone who has been educated in the Middle East." The writing, adds another agent, "looks like what I learned with a nun beating my hand." But the hijackers had worked hard to blend in and hide in plain sight too. And no one was eager to underestimate their cunning again...
Armstrong, a former nun, respected theologian and author of such best-selling books as A History of God and Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, defined fundamentalism as an act of panic...
...that the "but" I just used in conversation is not the "butt" she's not supposed to use. Anyway, one of her least favorite words is "disaster." She knows its meaning because at some point in each of the Madeline books Miss Clavell, the all-seeing and all-knowing nun, wakes in the night sensing something is not right and then, fearing a disaster, she runs fast - then faster. So Caroline similarly fears disasters. This morning, out of the blue: "Daddy, the plane that bumped into the building. Was that a disaster...
...Dava Sobel?s "Longitude" became an international bestseller, translated into more than 20 languages. Sobel, a former NYT science reporter, went on to write "Galileo?s Daughter," the story of the renaissance scientist?s life and times, and his relationship with his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a Poor Clare nun. Now, Sobel has edited and translated "Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633" (Walker; November 16). Kirkus is transported, giving the book a starred review. "The gentle, intelligent voice of Galileo?s daughter speaks across the centuries in 124 remarkable epistles--published for the first time...