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...dramatic end of the proceedings in the Netherlands opens a new chapter in the Lockerbie saga, one that seems likely to highlight divisions among the family members. In London late last week, Swire and other British relatives not only renewed calls for a full public inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing, but also raised nagging doubts about the case. "Why did Pan Am 103 crash on Lockerbie, not into the Atlantic Ocean?" Swire asked. With that he pointed to a fundamentally different hypothesis for the bombing, based on two events earlier in 1988. On July 3 the U.S. cruiser Vincennes shot...
...Penguin India, knows something about what makes a good read. So when it came time to write his first book, The House of Blue Mangoes?a novel that he tinkered with for nearly ten years?he went back to basics, offering up a straightforward but gripping narrative, an epic saga that has had publishers worldwide scrambling to buy it. Released in India last month and slated for the U.S. in March, the novel is already being called the "book of the year" and compared to A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, another Indian writer skilled in storytelling...
...that the book is partially autobiographical, a suggestion fostered by his painstaking research and meticulous detail. But he does admit to an idyllic childhood in the south on his father's tea estate which gave him a love of his native soil. Even though the scope of Davidar's saga compares to Seth's novel, its capable prose lacks the magical turns of phrase found in A Suitable Boy. Davidar's is a deliberate, enduring tale and one that proves years of plowing through a slush pile?learning how not to write?can produce a master storyteller...
...Space Station, a U.S. laboratory module named Destiny. NASA managers, rarely stolid when it comes to shuttle launches, have taken to describing Destiny as a "quantum leap" in the orbiting outpost's mission and capacity. From Cape Canaveral, Brad Liston examines this latest development in the $100 billion science saga...
DIED. AUBERON WAUGH, 61, acerbic British writer, journalist and satirist and son of celebrated novelist Evelyn Waugh; in Taunton, England. Waugh published the first of his five novels, The Foxglove Saga, in 1960, but won greater fame from his journalistic career, becoming renowned for the comic vitriol of the columns he wrote for a diverse range of publications, ranging from the up-market daily The Daily Telegraph to the satirical magazine Private Eye. Forecasting his imminent demise in an interview in November, Waugh said: "Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore...