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...only the specialist reader who bothers to flip back to the footnotes. Not so with Theodore Rex (Random House; 772 pages; $35). The second volume of Edmund Morris' projected three-volume set on the life of Teddy Roosevelt is likely to have just about everybody taking a peek back there once or twice. People are going to want to reassure themselves that the gifted but infamous Morris has not made up some of his nicely observed details, and not just because so much of this book has the hurtling pace and alert eye of good fiction. So did Morris' Pulitzer...
...Ground zero of the propaganda war has been inaccessible to most Americans - Qatar's Al Jazeera cable TV network, the single most important opinion-maker in the Arab world, broadcasts only in Arabic. But Boston NPR station WBUR is now offering Americans a peek at what the Arab world is hearing through its daily translations of Al Jazeera's news broadcasts. While much of the reportage comes straight from the wires, Taliban spin gets a lot more air than it would in the U.S. Example: "The Taliban say the U.S.-led campaign is a crusade against Islam and claim...
Dzongs are found across Bhutan. Huge fortress-like structures that combine the administrative center and principal monastery of each region, they embody the national marriage of Buddhism and politics. Non-Buddhists will find a peek into the courtyard is often all they are allowed: at Wangdue Phodrang, a village in central Bhutan, we were deterred from entering by stories of the regional administrator's fondness for whipping. In Paro, however, some high-ranking officials were happy to guide us around their temple. Inside, a sweet fog of cypress incense fought with the stench of butter lamps, which threw out flickering...
...trod and lit with signposts—research, recruiting, this way to OCS. And so it is that the Right conquers the True: the right grades, the right classes, the right activities, the right people to know. No need to take Philosophy 3 to learn about means-ends reasoning; peek into Ec10 to see it in action...
...Peek-a-boo! What's hiding under the covers...