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...literature--the mystery can offer only Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald and perhaps Julian Symons. Dozens of purported successors to Christie have been proclaimed, largely on the basis of gender, but none has sustained anything like her productivity or cunning. Every publishing season brings a promising debut, but the vast majority of these writers never again produce a book with the freshness of the original. Instead, they go on repeating themselves in ever more pallid imitations. Writers are encouraged in this timidity by their publishers, who find that the most profitable form of mystery is the series featuring a continuing...
Like Historian Raul Hilberg, who bears eloquent witness in Shoah, Lanzmann did not begin his mammoth project by "asking the big questions." Instead he amassed thousands of details--the exact size of the gas chambers, the regimen of the SS killer-bureaucrats--and arranged them in a vast mosaic that exposes but does not explain the mystery of extermination. Many of the details are riveting. Former SS Officer Franz Suchomel (whom Lanzmann filmed with a camera concealed in his shoulder bag) sings the Treblinka marching song--"No Jew knows that today"--and describes a pit that consumed discarded bodies: "There...
...also has Australia, specifically a vast sheep farm near Canberra owned by Harry and Liz Barton. Liz's mother BB (short for Betty Beauchamp) lives on the place, growing more gaga and malevolent by the day. Worse, Younger Sister Josie arrives from New York City for a Christmas visit, along with her son Alex and her still smoldering passion for Liz's husband. Naturally, family feuds overshadow all those exotic wallabies, kangaroos and kookaburras. But not before Murdoch turns a few deft landscapes and some surprisingly sympathetic portraits of the men trapped in a female fantasy...
...market, Chinese steel producers agreed to a 20% price rise. But if miners had been able to dig up the ore and ship it out faster, the Chinese would have bought even more. Mining company Rio Tinto has been selling iron ore to China for three decades. It has vast interests in the Pilbara, including nine mines and three ports. Through its subsidiary Hamersley Iron, Rio Tinto has a joint venture with Chinese steel producers in two mines, Channar and Eastern Ranges. The Channar partnership (China's first foray into foreign mine investment) began in 1987. Major new port, mine...
...great time to be a consumer in Australia: incomes are rising, interest rates are low, and stores are flooded with a vast array of inexpensive products - from $A12 cordless drills to $A90 DVD players - many of them imported from China. China makes half the world's cameras and one-third of all TVs. In 2004, imports from China rose by almost 26% to $A17.9 billion, almost all of it manufactured goods (such as clothing, computers, toys and sporting goods, telecommunications equipment and furniture). Last year, Australia exported to China a mountain of wool and cotton. Ships carrying a tiny fraction...