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DEFINITION clean-skin ter?ror?ist n. A potential attacker with a spotless record whose documents don't arouse suspicion...
...Harvard, Godelia has become the subject of public suspicion and police scrutiny...
...voices of the novel. Phillips writes in a subtle style that lends the book a charmingly haunted feel. The mystery narrator flits in and out, addressing the reader in one sentence and vanishing in the next. The multiple perspectives ensure that characters are never completely absolved of blame or suspicion. The reader is presented with nothing concrete, nothing completely justified, yet all validated at the same time; the characters are simultaneously good, bad, loving, and threatening. All is revealed (albeit slowly and sometimes in a contrived way) in a manner that suits the novel, a mystery concerned with...
...good fortune attracted the attention of bad people. Iraqis working with foreigners are regarded with suspicion by radical Shi'ite groups like the Mahdi Army of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Extremist groups view people like Yasser as traitors and collaborators who deserve to be tortured and executed. Early last year, one such group grabbed Yasser and interrogated him for several hours; that they released him unharmed was a small miracle - and a testament to his ability to talk his way out of trouble. But a few months later, the same faction kidnapped and tortured one of his friends...
...Speculation over match-fixing inevitably - if unjustifiably - placed the Pakistan team under a cloud of speculative suspicion, particularly after each member had been interviewed by detectives and had been asked to provide fingerprints and DNA samples. But Shields made clear the Pakistan squad, which left Jamaica last Saturday, are not regarded as suspects in the case. "All of them are witnesses," says Shields. "The reason why it took so much time is that we had to obtain statements from all of them. They were all with Bob in one form or another during the afternoon of the match, and indeed...