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...ferry - its driver vanished, and soon found dead - and ends with another car-related death. In the two intervening hours, several mysterious autos with malevolent intent stalk our hero. His only ally is a sedan earlier driven by McAra, whose chatty GPS leads the Ghost to a major suspect: Tom Wilkinson as a Harvard professor whose path may earlier have intersected with the Langs'. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Tom Scanlon, the assistant director of public programs at the Natural History Museum, attributed the high turnout of Harvard students at the event to a high public interest in food and sustainability...
Former Democratic Senate majority leader Tom Daschle spent years in the Senate taking the point against Republican legislation, but after leaving office, he joined the advisory board of the Bipartisan Policy Center, where he partnered with a storied GOP flag carrier, Bob Dole. He also now works at the lobbying firm DLA Piper with former Republican Senator Mel Martinez, who was co-chairman of the Republican Party less than three years...
...second recurring note is darker. Like many other populist movements in American history, Tea Parties have become magnets for conspiracy mongers and nativists. Nashville conventioneers roared their approval when former Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo blamed Obama's election on voters who can't speak English. Because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country," Tancredo declared, Americans "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama" - with an ominous emphasis on the President's middle name. Perhaps the most talked-about book of the convention was The 5,000 Year...
...could look to Tom Kelly to settle the score. Kelly, who is the spokesman for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, is supposed to love both of his children equally. So when I ask him which endeavor is tougher, skiing or snowboarding, I expect a dodge. Surprisingly, he doesn't duck the question. "When you're sitting in a bar and see Shaun White do a double cork, that's a singular move, a singular activity," Kelly says. "But if you look at what Lindsey is putting on the line, doing 80 m.p.h., to keep that going for that long...