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Last week the case came to a startling and unprecedented conclusion. The KGB official who had engineered Berkhin's arrest was fired, and there were warnings that more dismissals were in the offing. Even more surprising was the way the firing was announced: on the front page of Pravda. In...
Despite his use of the art-crit lingo that is a hazard of the profession, the Andover-Princeton educated Stella does a fine job of explaining how Caravaggio's painting surpassed the tradition of trompe l'oeil--literally "fool the eye," meaning those paintings designed to be mistaken for real...
Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look...
Most satisfying, the new mystery is often about some specific time or place or profession, whether it is Loren D. Estleman's seedy Detroit or William Marshall's nightmare vision of Hong Kong, Tony Hillerman's half-mystical, half-modern Navajo reservation or Jonathan Gash's crooked fringe of the...
This hostile environment may also deter promising minorities from teaching law, many fear. "Those of us in the business are extremely concerned that prospective minority lawyers who would become future law professors not be discouraged from pursuing access to the profession," Carty-Bennia says. She believes that incidents such as...