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...June 30, just weeks from today. Mired in the paranoia of an election year, this deadline ensures ample time to dissociate his presidency from the ongoing violence and volatile events on the ground. The president will be able to blame the mess—the suicide bombings, random violence, rampant unemployment and poor social services that plague the country—on the Iraqi administrators nominally in charge, rather than take responsibility for his unimpressive reconstruction policy...
Russia (32,285 homicides in 2002) can lay claim to a worse murder rate than our own, and Boris Akunin takes full advantage of it. His fiendishly witty Murder on the Leviathan (Random House; 223 pages) begins with 10 of them: the entire household of one Lord Littleby has been slaughtered by means of mysterious injections, and Littleby's skull has been bashed in. To add insult to injury, his precious golden statue of the Hindu god Shiva has been stolen. Akunin is the pen name of a Russian academic whose mysteries--all starring stuttering, downy-cheeked young detective Erast...
Several times Wednesday, it appeared that Garciaparra was not yet back to full strength. The shortstop did not drive the ball off Hendricks with regularity, though it was his first work with random pitch recognition during the week. During the first three rounds—on Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday—Morgalis and Hendricks told Garciaparra which pitch was going where...
...Burch’s entries referred to her supervisors by first name, bemoaning Director of Undergraduate Studies Anya Bernstein’s “random freaking out” and Champlin-Scharff’s “anal retentive control freakishness...
...life goals you chose for them (like raising a family or making a fortune) and away from their big fears (like being cheated on). Unlike us, the Sims get a final life score. But like us, they get to live on through children, whose features are an adorable random mix of those of both parents. They get to record the most precious moments of their Sim lives through in-game cameras...