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...kilometers) from where they were launched. The exercise drew perfunctory condemnations from the U.S. and some of the North's neighbors. Indeed, "acts of defiance" have become so predictable with Kim that they've come to be business as usual. The chief of the U.S. naval forces, Admiral Gary Roughhead, meeting with Japanese counterparts in Tokyo Saturday morning, blandly observed that American and allied ships in the region were simply "tracking the missiles" and "observing the activities that are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind North Korea's Missile Launch | 7/4/2009 | See Source »

...famed British murder trials in which women figured prominently. A well-written account of a true crime has twice the chilling impact of fiction. Author Lustgarten, equipped with a sharp, legally trained mind and a novelist's eye and heart, is probably just the man to succeed William Roughhead and Edmund Pearson as top writer in the true-crime field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The New Whodunits | 8/1/1955 | See Source »

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