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April 15, 2010

Olmert chief suspect in Holyland scandal

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was identified as the chief suspect in a massive real estate scandal.\n\nPolice on Thursday identified Olmert as the senior figure in the Holyland project scandal.

Strong majorities in both Houses press Obama on sanctions

More than three quarters of the members in both Houses of Congress wrote to President Obama urging him to unilaterally sanction Iran.\n\nThe U.S. House of Representatives letter, initiated by Reps. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) and Mike Pence (R-Ind.) garnered 363 signatories; the Senate letter, initiated by Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), garnered 76.

When one color is a rainbow

Normally, I write book reviews in the third person, eschewing the second person as intellectually unrigorous and the first person as, well, too personal. When I occasionally set aside my normal practice, it is usually when a book is about sex or race—two extremely personal, sensitive topics. The third-person voice in those reviews seems, well, too impersonal.

Doctor, Eunuch, Savior: A woman on a mission

An historical novel set in 13th-century Constantinople, “The Sheen On The Silk” by Anne Perry (Ballantine: $27.00, 514 pp.), is a major and, arguably, courageous leap for the prolific, bestselling Perry, well-known for her series of mysteries set during World War I and Victorian England.

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