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...That poverty may be ubiquitous, but so is the energy. Teeming, corrugated-iron slums surround decaying Art Deco mansions. Lush bougainvilleas peek from behind high stone walls trimmed with barbed wire. Chapels hear confession in the middle of decadent shopping malls, and hand-painted billboards advertising movies like Brazen Women overlook vendors touting T-shirts that read JESUS OF NAZARETH. At stoplights, peddlers tap on your window proffering newspapers and Marlboro Reds, while children wave garish feather dusters and delicate lace handkerchiefs. And wherever you go, there is music, in the endless strips of "videoke" lounges, pouring forth from bars...
...that of all fiction, is to entertain. Yet by having as its subject the spy, the man who goes where others do not, it implicitly assumes a secondary responsibility: to inform. A good spy novel allows the reader to see the world from the perspective of the spy, to peek from the dark shadows and assess it in recognition of its full complexity. Though the advertising for “Body of Lies,” the newest novel from Washington Post columnist David R. Ignatius ’72, calls it “one of the best post...
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...life in a small congregation keeps them coming back. She guesses that the 200 or so PWs who regularly visit her forums feel that sites like hers "really eliminate the isolationism that we feel. I'm struggling through it just like you. If you want to come in and peek into my little life--if that makes you feel less alone--that...