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Susan Isaacs has written a succession of deft, funny thrillers set on Long Island, New York--Compromising Positions is one of the best--about wise-guy women who talk themselves in and out of some fairly deadly predicaments. The better half of her new novel, Lily White (HarperCollins; 460 pages...
An additional problem for the monarchy is that it is in the midst of a prolonged and unsettling succession. King Fahd, 75, suffered a stroke last year just after the Riyadh bombing and has not fully recovered. His memory is impaired. Even so, he has reclaimed the powers he transferred...
From the outside it looks as if ambition won out--her career appears to be a seamless succession of secular triumphs, from being student-body president of her college to being the first woman ever to speak at Washington's Gridiron Banquet. But polished as she is at giving speeches...
For the Navy, the timing of the arrests could not be worse. The service is reeling from the fallout of the Tailhook sexual harassment scandal; a succession of cheating, drug-dealing and car-theft scandals at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; and the May 16 suicide of Admiral...
Armstrong's step-by-step march down the years shows how a succession of spiritual decisions and political circumstances passed the city from faith to faith. The rise of Greco-Roman power opened the way for the followers of Jesus to remake Jerusalem into Christendom's holiest place, a development...