Word: whodunit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poisoned by the same conspiracy theories that consumed the media in the days following his death. The most commonly discussed scenario in Safra's fiery death had the Russian mob settling a vendetta against the banker for blowing the whistle on money laundering schemes. It turns out this whodunit had a more ordinary culprit: the nurse...
...when Minna turns up leaking blood, Essrog finally starts asking questions. Just what were all those errands for? And why would Minna retell a joke instead of fingering his killer in his final moments? Finding out whodunit is interesting enough, but it's more fun watching Lethem unravel the mysteries of his Tourettic creation. In this case, it takes one trenchant wordsmith to know another...
Washington is a town that loves a whodunit, and last week's mystery had it all--whispers, desperation, even reincarnation. Just who was it that prodded the starchy and straight-laced Al Gore to pluck, of all people, Tony Coelho, an affable and genuinely scandalous party veteran, to seize control of the shaky Gore presidential campaign? Was it Bill Clinton, as restless as a sidelined Michael Jordan during play-off season, who had been muttering quietly to just about everyone for weeks that his buddy Al's campaign was a mess? Was it the President's killer fund raiser...
Genealogists' obstacle courses sometimes read like scripts for a whodunit. Wars and natural disasters wreak havoc: the U.S. 1890 Census was almost completely wiped out in a fire, and Southern courthouses were burned in the Civil War. The public records office in Dublin, Ireland, was destroyed in a fire in 1922. And in China's Cultural Revolution, the centuries-old ancestor records compiled by villages were declared "feudal garbage." In India, where most vital statistics are still unrecorded, rare documents are at Hindu holy spots where priests, known as pundits, write down births, deaths and marriages. But the documents, narrow...
More important than whodunit is the question of how badly the leak damages American security. Some experts say China would eventually have miniaturized its nuclear weapons on its own. That's probably true, but now Beijing has apparently found a shortcut to the most modern technology. Smaller warheads mean Chinese missiles will be lighter, more mobile, easier to hide and able to hit multiple, longer-range targets...