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...Doubleday; 364 pages), published this month, things take a turn for the worse. What really caught the imagination of young readers in Noughts and Crosses - and made Blackman the only black writer in the BBC's recent poll of Britain's 100 favorite books - was a simple, profoundly disconcerting, plot twist. In Sephy and Callum's world, it's the black people, (known as crosses), who have the power, money and education, while whites (the noughts) have menial jobs, few rights and even fewer opportunities. Blacks routinely diss whites as "blankers" and are known as "daggers" in return...
...pushes already overwrought lyrics to a point that will have many a cooler-than-thou music snob reaching for the volume knob. But truth is, Vanderslice cannot be faulted for over-dramatizing his material. With topics that include ground-level narratives from the War on Terror, the convoluted nightmare plot of Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and the singer’s own endless reserve of personal tragedies, it’s hard to sound...
Bunkered in the University Hall basement last Friday, administrators and police plot strategy in their war on crime...
More controversial than Hutton's verdict on the BBC was his conclusion that the government had no "dishonorable, underhand or duplicitous" plot to reveal Kelly's name to reporters once Kelly had told his bosses at the Ministry of Defense that he had met Gilligan but had not said all the things the reporter had broadcast. Yet the diary of Blair's communications director, Alastair Campbell, shows that he was obsessed with outing Kelly, sure that this would "f___ Gilligan." Hutton focused instead on the worry of some officials that if they concealed that a civil servant had come forward...
...denied filmmakers access to the inside of its New York City headquarters--Alfred Hitchcock couldn't get in to shoot his 1959 thriller North by Northwest. But director Sydney Pollack won approval last week to film The Interpreter, in which NICOLE KIDMAN plays a translator who overhears an assassination plot. Diplomats are now inquiring whether they'll get to meet Kidman and how they can become extras. Perhaps peace in the Middle East can be brokered in the catering truck...