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...Probuditi!” by Chris Van Allsburg...
...cover of Chris Van Allsburg’s latest is a testament to the wonders of sepia-toned illustration. But what does the emphatically punctuated title mean and why is the pig-like, pearl-wearing matron on the cover leaping over a chair, flounced panties flying? And why is she so oddly menacing? If I were five, I’d be frightened. Ok, fine, I’m still frightened. And the mystery spiral on the back of the book, a wide-eye girl’s face half in the frame, terrified and staring, doesn?...
Thirty million dollars can buy a Van Gogh, a private island, or—self-proclaimed antiques representative Paul T. Marino hopes—a pair of black walnut trophy oars. Harvard’s crew team scored the oars in 1852 after beating Yale in the first athletic competition between the two schools, reports the Los Angeles Times. But it wasn’t just the precursor to a greater rivalry; amazingly, the Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H. race was the first intercollegiate sporting competition in the United States. The oars came into the possession of the Marino family...
...Harris has transformed Hannibal into a variation on the standard action hero: the solo commando, escaping from more confrontations with mean, tough, armed men than Schwarzenegger and Van Damme in their prime. He is also the standard movie detective, sleuthing clues as to the whereabouts of his sister's killers. Indeed, he has assumed here the role of the real heroes of Red Dragon and Silence - he's the detective and the villains are the original cannibals. Like Will Graham or Clarice Starling, he's tracking them down, slipping into their crafty minds and trying not to be killed...
...SENTENCED. Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, 21, U.S. Marine; to 40 years in prison; for raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman in the back of a van in November 2005; in Makati City, the Philippines. Three U.S. soldiers and a Filipino driver were cleared of complicity in the attack on the woman, who testified she was too drunk on the evening of the assault to consent to sex. Smith is the first American marine to be convicted of rape in the country since 1998, when the two countries signed the Visiting Forces Agreement, which in part governs the treatment...