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...this for the tale of an upper-middle-class girl, Nanny, who takes a part-time job looking after Grayer Addison X, the 4-year-old scion of the Xs, a wealthy family with serious boundary issues. As plots go, it's not exactly Tom Clancy, but the novel's niftiness lies in Nanny's keen eye for detail. She's Mary Poppins channeling Dorothy Parker. She notes, for example, that at Halloween children are dressed as grownups while their caregivers are belittled: tiny Snow Whites shadowed by large dwarfs. Not to mention that the nannies' costumes are breathtakingly unsuitable...
Fighting the Taliban and running the fragile government have clearly taken a toll on Karzai's health. He looks a decade older than 44, and when he is fatigued, his facial muscles twitch. Born in Kandahar and educated in India, Karzai is the scion of a noble Pashtun clan. He glides easily between the traditional and the modern worlds. He relishes sparring with tribal visitors, who come grumbling about their local rivals or demanding special attention. It's like the court of a traditional Afghan chieftain. Everyone has his say, but Karzai, with humor but firmness, imposes his will...
ARRESTED. ROBERT A. DURST, 58, New York City real estate scion; for shoplifting in Bethlehem, Pa. Charged in Texas with beheading a man, and wanted for questioning about the disappearance of his wife, the fugitive millionaire was picked up for stealing a $5.99 hero sandwich from a Wegman's store...
...More optimistic Indonesians are calling Tom-my's capture a sign of President Megawati Sukarnoputri's commitment to rooting out cronyism and corruption. But it is a devastating comment on the state of the country's judicial system that the arrest of the 39-year-old Suharto scion after a year of mysteriously faulty wiretaps and failed raids on suspected hideouts has been greeted mainly with cynicism in the capital. Says human rights lawyer Todung Mulya Lubis: "So many elements of the old order will be controlling the process...
...Shaolin temple in America? Outrageous, perhaps, but if anyone can judge the group's authenticity, it ought to be Yan Ming himself. He's a legitimate scion of the original Shaolin Temple, the 1,500-year-old monastery a few kilometers away whose monks' melding of the gentle tenets of Buddhism with ancient combat techniques has earned it renown as the symbolic birthplace of Chinese martial arts. Just ask the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service: it thought Yan Ming should register his hands as lethal weapons when he applied for a green card. Just ask the Henan Tourist Bureau...