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Hugh Sidey tells us that "twinkly" Ron Reagan said that in my book Lincoln the President could not have seen from his window something or other I say that he saw ((NATION, July 20)). I suspect that neither Ron nor Hugh knows that Lincoln's office was on the southeast corner of the second floor, with a nice view of sunrise, sunset, the Potomac and the Confederacy. The current, ill-fated Oval Office was built...
Shoreline erosion, however, is exacerbated by less well understood -- and perhaps more ominous -- factors. Over the past 100 years, the ocean has risen more than a foot, a rate faster than at any time in the past millennium. Sea- level fluctuations are part of a natural cycle, but scientists suspect that this one may be different. They believe it is magnified by a fundamental change in world climate caused by a phenomenon called the greenhouse effect. Since the Industrial Revolution, people have been burning greater quantities of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil and gas. One by-product is carbon...
...Updike, Perelman is "overtaken by the characteristic nausea that attacks me when this youth performs on the printed page." Lawrence Durrell is "one of those Englishmen whose eye is especially made for spitting into." A publisher's catalog contains "only a few horrors like Tom Wolfe (of whom I suspect they're secretly ashamed...
...murders are believed to be the work of a single suspect, quickly dubbed the "Green River Killer," who appears to have ended his monstrous spree in March 1984. Over 20 months, the killer may have murdered as many as 46 victims, since nine local women remain missing and are presumed dead by his hand. By contrast, John Wayne Gacy, convicted in 1980 of more murders than anyone else in U.S. history, was found guilty of killing 33 boys and young...
...late 1970s. French officials sought to question Gordji about bombings that killed eleven people and injured 161 others in Paris last year. Though Gordji has not been charged, he has reportedly been linked by police to a Lebanese who has been charged with complicity in the bombings. French authorities suspect that Gordji may be a leader of an Iranian intelligence network. Police surrounded the 19th century sandstone embassy after concluding that Gordji, who is not protected by diplomatic immunity, was hiding there. Iran brazenly corroborated the hunch: Gordji served as translator at an embassy press conference called to denounce...