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...explosion below an overpass in an eastern suburb of Beirut turned Eid's car into a tangled wreck of fire-blackened metal, destroyed or damaged at least 20 other vehicles, shattered glass in a nearby office building and sent a plume of dark smoke into the sky from burning vehicles. Soldiers sealed off the area as fire engines and ambulances raced to the scene of the blast...
...Writing, of course, is the ultimate romantic job, the soft, fluffy plume of the go-it-aloners, and it has always been a little unpredictable. Langewiesche put it best when he said in a recent interview, “It’s a crap-shoot. We know it. But we are the people who decided we weren’t going to become doctors and lawyers. So it’s a very difficult road to walk. Always has been...
...blast was heard throughout east Beirut and a tall plume of thick black smoke rose into the early evening sky. The bomb exploded at a junction of a main street filled with rush hour traffic. Broken glass and masonry blasted from adjacent apartment buildings and office blocks littered the street as firemen doused the flames of burning vehicles. A cordon of green-bereted Lebanese troops sealed off the area from an angry and anxious crowd. "There's blood everywhere, blood, blood," cried a distraught Ziad Ghosn, eyeing a crimson trail in the bomb-blasted ruins of his brother's apartment...
...Church-the nom de plume of a former Western intelligence official who, in an e-mail interview with TIME, says he has been "in, around, and over (but never below) North Korea many times"-has an excellent eye for detail and a flair for the high art of gumshoe deadpan. "I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned to see who it was," O narrates, before being knocked cold by a security goon. "We'd been trained never to make that mistake; I made it anyway." As a detective, O is as hard-boiled as they come, a barely...
...Virgin Blue By Tracy Chevalier Plume...