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...Image begins with a snapshot in time, a single event that propels the narrative both forward and backward: the death of Naomi Landsmann, Leora’s best and only friend. This event causes Leora to meet Naomi’s grandfather, Bill, whose passion for Biblical photographs causes him to view life in discrete moments, snapshots that never form a cohesive whole. Though Bill’s goal is to create “the Bible on film, its greatest moments recorded in stop-action photography,” these tiny squares cannot create a world of meaning...
...Song’s not one to boast, however, or give in to the tea-drinker’s temptation of pretentiousness (why does she like tea? “The taste,” she says). A native Korean, Song discovered her passion while backpacking through Asia. She sampled teas in Buddhist monasteries, Beijing hotels and New Delhi cafes. Returning to the states, she now studies Confucian Ethics at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and devotes her spare time to bringing fine tea to Cambridge...
...best, then, forensics is an uncertain business, the onion-peeling exercise of investigating a crime using everything from shoe-leather detective work to the forensic accounting applied to Enron-type cases. Crimes of passion or violence, however, require a whole different set of tools, and it's here that much of the new science is found...
...abandoned the family; her mother has checked out emotionally, leaving Harriet's rearing to the maid and the Alexandria, Miss., library, whose blackhearted adventure tales--Stevenson's pirates, Kipling's cobras--she reads greedily. She also loves Bible stories, for their morbid, operatic horror; in her yard, she stages Passion plays, in which she stars as Jesus, serving Ritz crackers and grape Fanta as the Last Supper and acting out Christ's capture at Gethsemane beneath the tree where Robin was hanged...
...Danso concentrated mostly on her happy memories of Wamba, with whom she shared a passion for music and African culture...