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A Time to Heal I was heartened to find that in my home country, the Netherlands, a small nation of only 16 million people, more than $145 million was collected in private donations for victims of the tsunami disaster [Jan. 17]. That is in addition to the $300 million in...
It's an old story: boy meets girl, girl turns out to be his mother, boy kills father. Sophocles told it 2,400 years ago, as have many authors since. But few have tackled the Oedipal tale with as much wit, verve and retail success as Japan's Haruki Murakami...
DIED. JOHN VERNON, 72, prolific Canadian-born character actor, best known for his role as the paranoid Dean Wormer, nemesis of John Belushi's Bluto and Bluto's unkempt fraternity brothers in the 1978 John Landis comedy Animal House; in his sleep, at his home in Van Nuys, Calif.
Most people would leave questions like those as rhetorical and quietly tiptoe away, but Jared Diamond asks and relentlessly answers them in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Viking; 575 pages). Diamond, a professor of geography (surely an endangered species itself) at the University of California, Los Angeles...
That's just as well, because Medium is not a very good crime show. Its grisly murder tales out of the CSI playbook are average at best. Medium distinguishes itself as a character study: Allison is still learning to trust her own abilities and handle the responsibility they impose, and...