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Though “Stealth” starts out as plain ol’ bad, it is saved at the end, as it moves into the realm of amusingly horrendous. As Wade plummets to her possible death in the plane ejector’s seat, we hear her screams back at base over her still intact radio unit. A vivid, second-by-second narration follows with such gems as “My suit is on fire. It is on fire,” as well as “I’m hit. I’m hit?...
...Across the island, near the vast plain of gray ash that lies at the foot of rumbling Mt. Yasur, other John Frum believers see things differently. Here, every Friday around 8 a.m., the village of Lamakara falls still as three men disappear into a hut, where they change from faded T shirts and trousers into smart tan military uniforms. They then solemnly raise the flags of the U.S., France and Australian Aborigines, with whom they feel solidarity over land rights. When chief Isaac Wan appears, other men regard him with grave respect: they believe he is John Frum's prophet...
...Half-Blood Prince,” Rowling is also at her personal best. The author’s intricate plots have always carried the series, keeping us involved despite sometimes painfully plain prose. This time, the plot gets even better. Her technique works according to Chekhov’s formula—if there’s a gun in the first book, you can be sure there will be a death by the sixth—except J.K. Rowling doesn’t do guns; the clues she plants all have to do with biography, motive, and character. Earlier...
...fact, Philips took it one step further: the PDA-sized RC9800i takes the frustration out of remote setup by asking you, in plain English, what you've got and what you want to do with it, and it all takes place right there on the remote's own screen-no PC needed. Once I was through with the wizard, the device sure enough could control all of the stuff in my home theater...
Valerie Plame used to live hidden in plain sight. The brick house she and her husband, Joseph Wilson, bought in May of 1998 is on a leafy, Washington, D.C. side-street, a few turns from the German Embassy, and fits right in with the other well-to-do homes around it. The open garage door displays the common items of family life: bicycles, kids' toys, garbage cans. Wilson's convertible Jaguar sits parked in the driveway. A paved walkway cuts through a manicured lawn to the front door, behind which children can be heard playing. But the slim, attractive woman...