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...vicious methods and his ruthless fanaticism. He believes his own erratic ends are justified by any means, however bloody. He has become the modern-day incarnation of the Society of Assassins, which flourished from the 11th to the 13th century in the Middle East, only his victims are random and spread over the entire map. The primary tool of his effort to achieve Islamic unity and the elimination of Israel is terrorism. Gaddafi regards himself not only as the last great hope of pan-Islam but as the scourge of the West, which he fervently believes has humiliated the Arab...
...have separate lotteries in order to assign rooms. Each member of a rooming group draws a number in their respective lotteries, and the best number drawn represents that group. Each rooming group then selects their choice of room in order of their lottery number. Sophomore rooms are assigned at random...
Outwardly, The Endless Game (Random House; 309 pages; $17.95) is about a retired intelligence agent's lone, outlaw struggle to determine why someone murdered a prematurely senile woman who once was his colleague and lover. As in countless British espionage novels during the past few decades, the plot derives from the betrayal of Britain by Master Spy Kim Philby and his fellow moles for the Soviets. What distinguishes Forbes' book is his poignant linking of those defections to what he sees as his country's pervasive moral and material decay: "(He) wondered how anybody worth anything could continue to live...
...tribute to literary critic Gerard Genette--"Return of the Poetician"--and in random reflections on culture, language and history, Barthes is inimitable in the clarity of his observation, in the music of his language that is like "the noise of what, functioning to perfection, has no noise...happy machines which rustle...." It stammers, it shimmers--his writing does whatever he desires...
...Random House; 210 pages...