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...Army Lieut. Emma Cuevas, there used to be nothing to compare with the thrill of skimming the treetops of Panama at 160 m.p.h. in a 10-ton, 50-ft. Black Hawk helicopter. That was before she discovered the slower-motion joy of nursing her 21-lb., nine-month-old daughter Isabella. Since then Cuevas has twice asked the Army to let her leave the service, arguing that a pilot's demanding schedule has made it impossible for her to breast-feed her daughter properly. The Army says no, explaining that Cuevas made a deal when she became a cadet...
Holbrook is currently doing research in Panama...
...Tailor of Panama (Knopf). John le Carre offers a typically stylish and subtle turn on the espionage game. Nothing is actually going on in Panama that demands being spied upon, but that doesn't stop a couple of itchy agents in British intelligence. In Panama City they blackmail a well-connected tailor who obediently weaves a dire plot against British interests out of whole cloth. As with any good fiction, imagined events lead to real repercussions...
...Hawaii by herself or alone with her husband, swimming and walking Oahu's rainswept beaches. While Clinton draped his golf cart in plastic sheeting and hit the rainy links, Hillary lost herself in books: she brought along eight, including John Le Carre's new novel, The Tailor of Panama...
...only to look up "Gatun" in an atlas to verify the spelling (and to verify that it is actually a location on the Panama Canal), but also to find out whether the canal lock gate at Gatun is actually 75 feet high, and whether it is in fact swinging shut in the picture. Soon I was scanning through books about canal locks, searching through various technical reference manuals and finding absolutely nothing. A call to engineers in Panama was also no help. No, no, no, it's all wrong, they told me. The gate at Gatun is actually 77 feet...