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Astunning blonde is handcuffed to the brass bed, dead and covered in blood. Her face is contorted into a permanent scream. She's Russian. It's the boiling Shanghai summer of 1926. And a glance at a family portrait in her International Settlement apartment reveals the victim is an aristocratic ingenue?a refugee from the Bolsheviks fending for herself in a city where everyone is on the run and has something to hide. "Never ask anyone in Shanghai about their past," explains the detective on the case. "Especially not a lady...
...Bradby could hardly have found a better setting for his smoky police yarn than this chaotic entrepot. In 1926, Shanghai was run by a trinity of competing interests. There were separate law enforcement offices for the International Settlement and the French Concession and cooperation was strained at best. And in the Chinese section of the city?past the reach of the colonial powers?justice was summary execution at the will of the neighborhood triad boss. This lawlessness combined with the wealth pouring into Shanghai's bustling port encouraged young, ambitious men and women with flexible scruples to dream and scheme...
...fight this war alone" and that he does "not believe that the war on terrorism applies to Iran and Iraq"-but refused to say whether Saudi Arabia would support a U.S. attack on Baghdad. Translation: he might, but he's going to insist that in return America secure a settlement between Israel and the Palestinians...
...longtime champion of the settlement movement, Sharon remains fiercely opposed to withdrawal to the 1967 borders. But neither his Labor Party coalition partners nor the U.S. would countenance him meeting the demands of his right-wing allies to destroy Arafat's administration and reoccupy its territory. That leaves Sharon between a rock and a hard place, with his approval rating plummeting - in a poll published Friday in Israel's largest daily, only 38 percent of respondents approved of Sharon's handling of the intifada...
...This proposal is intended to make the curriculum more flexible for our current undergraduates,” Pedersen said. “It is not intended to be some final settlement...