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...Around with Dan Re Lev Grossman's review of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol [Sept. 28]: To be a good read - and this was - a book doesn't have to be a literary masterpiece. Authors make things up in works of fiction. Anything that will get people to turn off the computer or TV is good, and this book will. Plus, far more people will read the book than will read your review. Clif Sellers, CHICO, CALIF...
...with India. Even at Naypyidaw, once a symbol of seclusion, the junta plans to build an international airport to handle over 10 million passengers a year. "They're much less isolationist than we think, although they choose their friends carefully," says Rogers. "Those friends tend to be countries that turn a blind eye to their conduct." (Read "Why Violence Erupted on the China-Burma Border...
Letterman took heat - when Howard Stern is criticizing your treatment of women, you know you've screwed up - and the questions came thick: Would viewers turn to Conan O'Brien or Jay Leno, if CBS didn't have to get rid of him altogether? And could Letterman tell sex jokes about politicians anymore? (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...Angelina Jolie were supposedly interested in buying Ethiopia, although a representative for the couple later denied the deal. An Irish investor (who committed suicide in February, after his company went broke) planned to build a theme resort on Ireland; never mind that the gulf's extreme heat would turn a pint of Guinness into a bubbling black stew. Only one island, reportedly belonging to Sheik Mohammed, ended up occupied, its palms shading a large mansion. The 299 others are barren smears of sand. From his lonely vantage point in the eye of the World, the sheik, a horse-racing enthusiast...
While some Houses have begun to turn their heat on, two weeks ago one Quincy House resident worried he would not make it to the winter...