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...York emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature. How and why New York attained its now partly-lost eminence is the grand theme of this detail-crammed psychohistory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25) by Columbia University professor Ann Douglas. "Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises," says TIME critic John Elson, who notes that the author sometimes gets her details wrong. But Elson says those are minor flaws in an "erudite portrait of a dazzling decade and metropolis."MONEY
...place where French forces tortured, imprisoned and guillotined Algerian guerrillas. Today it is where the government holds 1,000 of as many as 30,000 Islamists reportedly jailed around the country. One former inmate told TIME he had been held for six weeks of solitary confinement in a dark, rat-infested underground cell, tormented by two prison guards...
...feel for you, I really do. Besides the fact that without a bath in three or four days and you probably looked like a drowned rat, you most likely smelled like one too. All I can think is, "Gross!" And that's probably what "Sandra" thought too, I'm sorry...
Misoso, by Verna Aardema; illustrated by Reynold Ruffins (Knopf; $18), is a fascinating collection of traditional African tales, which are bound to be new to New World kids: "One morning a toad said to a rat, 'I can do something that you can't do.' 'What?' cried the rat. 'You don't even know how to run. You just throw yourself, lop -- and then you stop and look around."' Yes, and then? Listen for fun, but learn too: leelee goro means "little girl" in the Temne language, and jambo is Swahili for "hello." And a "sloogey dog" is a Saluki...
...years Frank Sinatra has won an enthusiastic following among college students through no effort of his own. Usually, young people start listening to him because they find his Rat Pack cool campily appealing, but ironic condescension soon turns to true admiration of his talent. Even though it's not really necessary for Sinatra's handlers to market him to the kids, they have done so anyway. Last year, notably, he was paired on Duets with Bono, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin and other younger-than-Frank performers...