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There are many haunting questions about Berg and his odyssey in Iraq, which came to a tragic close last week when his body was found and a video of his horrific execution was circulated on the Internet. Why was this communications-tower repairman imprisoned for 13 days this spring in the city of Mosul--and who had custody of him there? After his release, why did he refuse offers of help to get home? And perhaps the biggest mystery of all: How did a former Boy Scout, who had spent time doing humanitarian work in Africa, stumble into the path...
...victory crowns a remarkable odyssey. Born near Turin, Sonia Maino was 18 when she met Rajiv Gandhi at a Greek restaurant in Cambridge, England. The couple shunned politics, but the 1984 assassination of Rajiv's mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, thrust him to the head of India's leading political dynasty. On the day Indira died, Sonia predicted the same fate for her husband. "I begged him," she later recounted. "I said he too would be killed." A suicide bomber assassinated Rajiv in 1991. Sonia was not eager to take his place, but in 1997, with the Congress Party floundering...
Quentin Tarantino continues his found-art odyssey through the fringes of culture on the soundtrack to Kill Bill Vol. 2, coming up with yet another bounty of oddities and forgotten “classics.” But, though providing an intriguing and original listen, this installment lacks the immediacy and sparkle of its predecessor...
...ultimate in oversized ridiculousness, our friends over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have gone and upped the standard. MIT scientist Michael Hawley has authored the world’s largest book: a 133-pound, five-by-seven-foot tome entitled “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom.” The book’s 112 pages showcases spectacular digital photographs of the tiny country perched in the Himalayas and required innovations in bookbinding (all done by hand) to put together. For a donation of just $10,000 or more, you too can own this Guinness...
...ultimate in oversized ridiculousness, our friends over at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have gone and upped the standard. MIT scientist Michael Hawley has authored the world’s largest book: a 133-pound, five-by-seven-foot tome entitled “Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Kingdom.” The book’s 112 pages showcases spectacular digital photographs of the tiny country perched in the Himalayas and required innovations in bookbinding (all done by hand) to put together. For a donation of just $10,000 or more, you too can own this Guinness...