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The code-red scrutiny that now accompanies the A.F.P. and its boss was played out dramatically in March, after the Madrid commuter-train bombings. Keelty was asked during a TV interview whether a similar attack could occur in Australia. "The reality is," he replied, using a trademark phrase, "if this...
“The bench really rose to the occasion,” Sullivan said. “Graham had a terrific first half and I think that really got us going.”
One Saturday in October, several dozen of China's most outspoken men and women converged on an artists' colony in the mountains outside Beijing at a meeting of the unofficial Chinese branch of the global writers' association PEN International. The occasion: the awarding of a literary prize to author Zhang...
Such irresolution irks other Christians, who see Luke's line that "Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart," as a sign that she simply delayed telling people, and who must fight claims, some 2,000 years old, that the Nativities got the virginal conception wrong. Fellow Jews...
Four years later, Dallaire has published a bestselling memoir, Shake Hands with the Devil, which was re-released in paperback form by Carroll & Graff last week. A documentary of the same title will air at the Sundance Film Festival next month. On occasion, he can be found in an office...