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...novelist, and a very fine one, Patrick McGrath has specialized in the modern Gothic, books in which madmen of one kind or another work their wiles. But his superb and unwholesome new novel, Port Mungo (Knopf; 242 pages), is not about anything so simple as abnormal psychology. It's about the brutal impulses available to anyone, especially artists, who would let slip the loose restraints of civilization...
...occupation. Such an opposition is precisely what was created in Iraq under the British League of Nations mandate in the 1920s and '30s, though few policymakers seem to have bothered to study the mandate's lessons. Toby Dodge of Britain's Warwick University - and author of Inventing Iraq, a superb recent book on the mandate - points out the ways in which coalition authorities today are making the same mistakes that the British did 80 years ago. Now, as then, the occupying powers are shuffling from one scheme for self-rule to another; now, as then, they change their minds about...
...cobbled streets, which ascend to a 13th century castle. Its guides do a creditable job of appearing to cherish your offspring, no matter how much their cries interrupt the history lesson. Sightseeing over, refuel at the Hotel Bonnet, tel: (33-5) 5329 5001. This converted riverside residence features a superb, child-friendly restaurant on elevated decking. Younger kids will enjoy a ride in one of the tour boats that ply this part of the river; older ones might prefer to try a canoe...
...button up. "If I hear any speculation coming out of the White House about the Secretary," he said, "you'll answer to me." Early last week Bush marched over to the Pentagon and deliberately and publicly wrapped his arms tightly around his war boss. "You are doing a superb job," he told Rumsfeld. "You are a strong Secretary of Defense, and our nation owes you a debt of gratitude...
...superb performance,” said Crimson coach David Fish ’72, “and I thought that it was the quintessential Lingman game...