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...Iraq and have already done so. The giant U.S. construction firm Bechtel, for example, has about 150 subcontractors in Iraq, including companies from Germany and other nations that opposed the war. It's easy to understand why. Much of Iraq's ravaged infrastructure, which has been short of spare parts for more than a decade, was built by German, French or Russian firms. A prime contractor trying to repair power grids and oil-pumping stations would be doing a poor job if it didn't turn to the companies that installed them in the first place...
...will be its primary enigma, a troubled, potentially violent man who leads us to Barker's central quandaries: By what formula can evil be understood? By what means can we avoid being complicit in its schemes? The questions are teased out expertly. Her dialogue is as sharp and spare as ever. But Barker may be too anxious not to frame the answers in obvious strokes. Her tale proceeds intriguingly, only to end by teaching us a trick we didn't come to learn: how to leave a large question simply hanging in the air. --By Richard Lacayo
...those things, plus 9/11, Slobodan Milosevic and a good many predatory birds. But it's also the work of the subtle British novelist Pat Barker, whose dry-eyed manner and nuanced view of good and evil made her Regeneration trilogy, about World War I, a triumph. Her spare but still sometimes resplendent writing, her gift for menace--it's all in this book, and it makes you want to follow her even when she gets lost in the tangles of her multiple ambitions...
...appalled by the idea of executing mentally handicapped murderers—when choice isn’t involved, pity is far more warranted than anger. So go ahead, pass judgment on celebrities for their latest relapse or for trading in their aging wives for younger models, but spare me your righteous indignation when it comes to molesting children...
...point guard fits the Southern stereotype to a certain extent—she is anti-abortion (although, according to her friends, she respectfully won’t get into arguments about her politics), participates in Harvard’s Christian Bible study group and even hunts deer in her spare time (no, not in Cambridge). Moore has lived in Monroe all her life, and during her junior year of high school accepted a basketball scholarship to powerhouse Louisiana Tech. However, after two years of attending the school just 20 minutes down the road from her home, Moore decided...