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Daniel Benjamin is senior fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies, and Steven Simon is senior analyst at the Rand Corp. They are the authors of The Age of Sacred Terror (Random House...
...book is classic Amis, energetically written, peopled with colorfully named lowlifes, suffused with violence and physical decrepitude, whirring with plotlets and straining to tackle big themes. It's the story of Xan Meo, a successful London actor-writer and doting father who suffers a head injury in a seemingly random (it isn't) act of violence and becomes a crude, inarticulate jerk. His journey back to goodness pits him against Joseph Andrews, a vicious East End gangster semiretired to the U.S. Meanwhile, the royal family (a new element in Amisland; he has learned what sells) is threatened with blackmail when...
Summoned by e-mails, random strangers have been gathering at specific times in predetermined places this summer to engage in miscellaneous collective action. If this sounds vague, that's because it is. Whether the phenomenon, referred to as a "flash mob," is a cure for the ennui of the wired generation or an incipient form of social protest may be open to debate. But what is clear is that flash mobbing is global, and it's spreading. One mob recently gathered in New York City's Central Park, mimicked bird calls and chanted "Nature, nature" for 20 seconds...
...full-scale bomb-detection machines. It formed the nation's first airport-based Anti-Terrorism Unit of troopers who prowl the concourses toting submachine guns. It has set up a perimeter stretching 250 ft. into Boston Harbor that puts the airport off limits to boaters. And state troopers conduct random vehicle searches along its access roads. Later this month Logan will become the only U.S. airport to install shatterproof film on all terminal windows...
...WINTER QUEEN, by Boris Akunin (Random House; 244 pages...