Word: salvos
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...traveling, a hard-boiled soft-cover can be just the ticket. If you're not traveling, you'll want novels that can transport you. Here are some recent paperback mysteries from far and near that are worth investigating THE TERRA-COTTA DOG Andrea Camilleri (Penguin) Sicilian inspector Salvo Montalbano follows the trail of a supermarket heist to a cave where two young bodies lay, dead since World...
Baghdad nights are full of menace. The smoke of looted, burning buildings turns the sunset blood orange. Once darkness falls, tracer fire arcs across the sky like red fireworks. It's dazzling but dangerous. One recent salvo came down on a gasoline tanker, setting off an explosion that killed a man and injured several others...
...South Bank of the Thames is a dignified, flourishing cultural waterfront, sporting national centers for theater, film and painting. It seems an unlikely spot for a battle. But this week a major salvo will be fired, as advertising millionaire and art collector Charles Saatchi opens his much-anticipated new gallery, just a riverside stroll away from his archrival, Tate Modern, which opened to huge acclaim in 2000. Saatchi is one of the art world's most notorious figures, having used his wealth to shape a generation of British art. He favors works that make big, confrontational gestures, like Damien Hirst...
...conviction that resistance was futile. The despot's regime, Administration officials insisted, was too "brittle" to survive such an onslaught. Iraqi troops would defect en masse, they suggested. Intelligence and military officers had selected likely turncoats among the military's highest echelons. Just two days before the opening salvo, Richard Perle, a leading war booster on the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, predicted, "Even those closest around the [Iraqi] President will understand they have no chance in the face of what's coming after them...
...seems weirdly priggish to discuss the brutalities of war and the technicalities of law in the same breath. But it was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has heretofore made no secret of his impatience with legalisms, who launched this salvo last week: "It's a violation of the Geneva Convention," he angrily told CNN, "[for Iraqi TV] to be showing prisoners of war in a humiliating manner." Rumsfeld was reacting to news that al-Jazeera network had broadcast Iraqi TV images of bruised, terrified American prisoners of war being questioned by Iraqi reporters. Opponents of the war responded that...