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...good book can take something that seemed impenetrable and make such elegant sense of it that readers wonder why they never saw order in all that chaos before. Malcolm Gladwell did it for snap decision making. Jared Diamond did it for the rise of civilizations. Now Lynne O'Donnell, with High Tea in Mosul, does it for sniper fire and kidnapping threats. Four years into the war in Iraq, she captures with stark simplicity what it's like to live with ceaseless fear and violence...
...trippers, who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and let it go at that, and the hard core--the mighty Uruk-hai of Tolkien fans--who have delved into The Silmarillion and grok the deep history of Middle-earth. The latter group will snap up The Children of Húrin, a "new" tale of Middle-earth cobbled together by Christopher Tolkien out of manuscripts left behind by his dad J.R.R. But there's a lot there for the weekend warrior...
...deadline was approaching by the time Othman finished the letter, and Gildroy was left with no choice but to snap a quick picture of it, upload it to her computer, and e-mail the JPEG to the Admissions Office in Cambridge, hoping that someone there would be able to translate the recommendation from Arabic. “They’re either going to accept this or throw it out, but I can’t do anything about it,” Gildroy remembered thinking...
...five weeks ago from a local gun shop, according to the Roanoke Times. The Walther was purchased just last week. Virginia law prohibits buying more than one handgun in a 30-day period. It appears Cho waited the full month before buying the Walther, suggesting he didn't just snap...
...open as a musical on Broadway on April 29 with three Harvard grads playing prominent roles on the production. But the jump from Harvard to Broadway isn’t as simple as Elle’s signature “bend and snap.” Harvard grads going into show business have found themselves both helped and hindered by their Cambridge background.PERFORMING AT HARVARDWhile Harvard is best known for producing a high number of I-bankers and consultants, some young artists of Harvard theater have decided to step out of the mold and onto paths less traveled...