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...course, the author of the supernatural thriller Interview with the Vampire and its many best-selling sequels, which intermingle sex and blood and death to great, gothic effect. But she's hardly the first novelist to "go there," as the kids say. Leo Tolstoy, Robert Graves, Nikos Kazantzakis and Norman Mailer, to name a few, all took a run at Jesus, to say nothing of the eyebrow-raising suggestions found in The Da Vinci Code. One James BeauSeigneur has authored a lively series of novels about a reconstituted Jesus who was cloned from cells found in the Shroud of Turin...
Playing with the boys offers its own distinct advantages. Linda Norman, 33, president of a Web-design company in Dallas, recently began attending networking poker events for executives, typically male. "It's a social setting where they find out you're competitive and intelligent," she says. "They see you as someone they can do business with." Other card-playing businesswomen say poker can help sharpen business skills. It teaches how to think strategically and size up the competition and the risk- reward ratio of each situation swiftly and objectively...
...than Plame.) In the Cooper case, the prosecutor went after e-mails and other information stored on computers owned by Cooper's employer, Time Inc., which was subpoenaed and held in contempt when it refused to turn over the documents. That decision rested with Time Inc. editor-in-chief Norman Pearlstine, who, after fighting the prosecutor all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court (it declined to hear the case), eventually decided to honor the subpoena last July. Soon after, Cooper, who had refused to testify after getting a second subpoena and was facing jail time, testified once...
...provide aid to its own hurricane victims? Could it be that these predominantly poor victims are considered unworthy of a massive deployment of our military to provide for their basic needs? Bush is a Christian, as am I. Is this really a Christ-like response to people in need? Norman E. Gibson Sacramento, California...
...medieval town of Erice. Perched more than 700 m atop a steep incline, the town is seemingly suspended like a fairy-tale fiefdom above the endless flatlands below. The winding cobblestone streets make for a nice place to get lost (and easily found), and the well-preserved 12th century Norman castle, above, is a must-see. But it's the downward views that truly give the hillside hamlet an otherworldly aura. Look south and you'll see Sicily's rugged interior; up north there's the San Vito lo Capo peninsula; to the east, there's the road to Palermo...