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...falsehoods including the claim to have said "no thanks" to the Ketchikan "bridge to nowhere" and discrepancies in her assertions on the investigation into abuse of power during her tenure as governor; her campaign's unprecedented demand for "deference" from a free press before answering questions - all paint a portrait of a woman who believes she has it all figured out. Scott Kenyon, Vienna...
...Most riveting is the portrait Schroeder paints of the family's dealing with Susie's oral cancer. Buffett, who always expected his wife to outlive him, reels from the news. He is terrified of losing her and cries for hours. Buffett had always avoided hospitals and was squeamish about all things medical - a "man who ducked the subject of a common cold and used terms like 'not feeling up to par' as euphemisms for illness; the man who changed the subject uneasily whenever anyone spoke of physical complaints." And yet with his wife undergoing radiation after facial surgery, he overcomes...
...falsehoods including the claim to have said "no thanks" to the Ketchikan "bridge to nowhere" and discrepancies in her assertions on the investigation into abuse of power during her tenure as Governor; her campaign's unprecedented demand for "deference" from a free press before answering questions - all paint a portrait of a woman who believes she has it all figured out. Scott Kenyon, VIENNA...
...through the stories of both Hortense and Queenie in parallel chronology, highlighting their dysfunctional relationships with their military husbands and frustrations with their respective “small islands.” And while Levy communicates her imperial frustrations clearly, she does not do so by painting a superficial portrait of either side. Although Jamaican soldiers emerge as the heroic but disenfranchised patriots, Levy also highlights the ambiguous and terrifying experiences of white British veterans of the World Wars. While the geography of the novel is sweeping (the story takes place in Jamaica, the U.S., England, and India), its characters...
...approval rating sank to 3% in the war's aftermath and remained in the single digits. At an exhibition hall in Tel Aviv rented by Kadima on election night to handle the media and party faithful - and where press outnumbered supporters 3 to 1 - Olmert's portrait was conspicuously absent, much the way that U.S. President George W. Bush was relegated to near invisibility at the Republican Convention...