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...people thinking and writing about debt. But few of them are Booker Prize--winning novelists, and that's what makes Payback--equal parts philosophical essay, literary criticism and historical narrative--a compelling project from the start. The author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Blind Assassin examines the science of give-and-take, from evolution (studies of chimpanzees' innate concept of fair play) to religion (themes of redemption in Christian theology) to literature--where Atwood realizes that debt drives many a plot (Vanity Fair, A Christmas Carol). And what happens when, she asks, "people don't pay their debts...
...Schieffer was in the Star-Telegram newsroom when JFK was shot in Dallas. A little while later, a call came in from Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin in the JFK shooting. At her request, Schieffer and another reporter drove Mrs. Oswald to Dallas where her son was being held, and took statements from her on the way there of which Schieffer says: "She was making these outrageous statements, statements that were so outrageous that I didn't include some of them ... And I learned a great lesson ... that you have to be very careful about...
...Chuck Norris: all he lacks is a beard and a website. "Who needs bodyguards when you're this good at self-defense?" asks this Russia Today reporter, which is a quite ridiculous thing to say since the ability to flip people isn't at all going to stop an assassin's bullet. The real question begged by these clips from Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin (and again, yes, this is a real DVD): Who is crazy enough to volunteer as his sparring partner? Just think what would happen if that guy in the blue robe reflexively, accidentally flipped...
...Brigadier General Mohammed Suleiman, 49, was shot dead last Friday at his chalet in the Rimal al-Zahabieh luxury resort nine miles north of the port city of Tartous on the Mediterranean. Press reports in the Arab world claimed that the assassin had fired the shots from a boat out at sea, thus evading security at the prestigious holiday resort regularly frequented by top regime figures. Some analysts, however, suspect that the killer fired from close range - they note the fact that Suleiman was hit in the head, neck and stomach, and also the difficulty of firing that accurately from...
...Mullah Fazlullah, the local Taliban leader who used to work the resort's chairlift, said their group was forced to act because government security forces were using some of the schools as bunkers. In the forbidding tribal zone of Waziristan, followers of Baitullah Mehsud, the physical-education teacher turned assassin (both the CIA and Pakistan's intelligence agencies say he is behind the attack that killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December), slaughtered 22 government negotiators seeking to cement a cease-fire accord. And on July 6 a suicide bomber blew himself up near Islamabad's Red Mosque, killing...