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...government of General Pervez Musharraf survives the inevitable anger in the streets that a U.S. war with Iraq would unleash, Pakistan's bitter dispute with India over Kashmir will remain, posing a constant threat of war between two nations with nuclear arms. Weaver, a foreign correspondent for the New Yorker, is a lucid and compelling guide through the nasty predicament that is Pakistan. Just don't expect her to be a comforting one. --By Richard Lacayo
...temple until 1857, and inside visitors will find drinking glasses, pipes and other belongings of the consul's, as well as somewhat ghastly life-size figurines of Harris and Okichi. There's also a passage from Harris's diary, engraved on a large outdoor marker, in which the New Yorker waxes severe: "At half past two p.m. of this day (Sept. 4, 1856) I hoist the first consular flag ever seen in this empire," he begins. "Grave reflections. Ominous of change. Undoubted beginning of end. Query?Xif for real good of Japan...
Most of the time, I try to hide this habit under a veneer of respectability—stacking a New Yorker on top of a New York, or nodding agreeably at what Cindy Adams has to say about poor Winona Ryder’s rehabilitation while standing next to the World News section at the Coop newsstand. And even there, celebrity-mania gives you a different way of looking at the world: Sure, Dick Cheney is running our country and President Bush is fighting his father’s war, but, more importantly, have you noticed how this administration...
...Paul Hoffman writes about games for "The New Yorker". His next book, "Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight", will be published in the spring
...said that the actions of the two fans at Chicago's Comiskey Park who attacked a first-base coach were "a move rarely expected outside Yankee Stadium" [PEOPLE, Sept. 23]. As a native New Yorker, I am tired of such gratuitous, negative references to New Yorkers, implying that violence, rowdiness or boorish behavior is exclusive to us. I am proud to be a New Yorker and a Yankee fan. John Costanzo New York City