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...Cornwell’s latest work, “At Risk.” The short novella, which was originally a 15-part serialization in The New York Times Magazine, can be seen as the culmination of the gradual shift away from the “Postmortem” standard. Cornwell is the finest crime writer of her generation, but the crime is an afterthought in “At Risk.” An old woman was murdered a long time ago in Tennessee, but the mystery is easily solved without the thorough forensics that made Cornwell famous...
...narrative is well-constructed, delighting in the chance to place the standard account of the unfolding war in soft focus. As the fate of the slaves in the southern colonies assumes primary importance, usual keystones of American Revolutionary War histories, such as the Boston Tea Party and the battles at Lexington and Concord, assume the same air of hazy reportage as they would have to the beleaguered British governors...
...fault him for being an extremist. He may have a very conservative Islamic side, but many Republicans have a conservative Christian side. For those who are critically skeptical of anything Muslim, his words might ring hollow and farcical. But if we are not to judge him with a double standard, then at least he should be given the benefit of the doubt. Barry Lee Hong Kong Ii read the interview with Ahmadinejad with great pleasure. He answered the questions with a hint of arrogance but also with reflection. The U.S. President is committing a mistake by rejecting dialogue. I believe...
...changes—which were first reported by The Crimson on Thursday night and announced publicly by the school on Friday—condense the standard first-year offerings and add courses on international and comparative law, legislation and regulation, and “problems and theories...
...sure, the world is now speaking with one voice in condemning Pyongyang's nuclear test. But that's no surprise: nobody likes North Korea, and universal condemnation is the standard response when any nation joins the nuclear club, as India and Pakistan discovered in 1998. There's little surprise, either, in a gathering U.N. consensus on rebuking North Korea, with China likely to sign off on some symbolic sanctions to punish...