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...Georgia woods, whose body was discovered by Slaughter's favorite characters, medical examiner Sara Linton and her former husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. We caught up with Slaughter by phone at her home in Atlanta, where she was busily packing her suitcase for her 12-city U.S. book tour...
...residents of divis Tower celebrated this summer when the British army closed the observation post that had taken up the top two floors of their drab apartment block in West Belfast for more than 30 years. Not Joe Lavelle. As his guided tour passed on the road below, soldiers used to wave on cue when passengers pointed their cameras from the open top of their double-decker bus. Now, as a mark of the peace that's slowly settled over Northern Ireland, the troopers and their fortified outpost are gone. "It's like going to Paris and not having...
...could have opted out of a book tour for The Year of Magical Thinking--she is, after all, grieving and famous--but she is very much of the show-must-go-on school. "If you're going to publish something, talking to people about it kind of comes with the territory," she says. "I didn't die. My life has to continue. I don't have an option." An orchid--Phalaenopsis, she says, and spells the word for me--stands in a glass vase on her coffee table. As we talk, Didion plucks one of its large, limp white blossoms...
...cricket-obsessed India, where the travails of the country's national team are front-page news, a feud between its coach, Australian Greg Chappell, and its captain, Sourav Ganguly, has become more captivating than any test match. During the team's tour to Zimbabwe last month, an outraged Ganguly told the Indian press that Chappell was demanding he resign as captain; Ganguly threatened to quit the team in protest. Days later, in an e-mail to India's cricket board which was leaked to the media, Chappell described the 32-year-old as "struggling," "fragile" and "nervous" and suggested...
...characterized the Indian side and the hard-nosed professionalism that Chappell, a former captain of Australia's national team, was brought in to instill in India's talented but often lackadaisical players. His arrival in July was taken as a signal that their days of lackluster performances?the Zimbabwe tour, the first of Chappell's tenure, was also the first away test series India won in two decades?were over. But Chappell's ambition hasn't sat well with some players: bowler Harbhajan Singh complained to reporters that the new coach was subjecting the team to "fear," "tension" and "immense...