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Based in South Florida, where he is a columnist for the Miami Herald, Carl Hiaasen has always exhibited an unbridled interest in the landscape of that state. This interest in and love of the land fuels his darkly tinted novels, which pull no punches and...

In last Sunday's Washington Post, on Page A16, investigative reporter Jim McGee provided a fascinating look inside the FBI's Strategic Information Operations Center in downtown Washington. The facility, greatly expanded and modernized after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, is the command post for the...

Busby Berkeley's "The Gang's All Here" (1943) is camp heaven, the apotheosis of excess, a beaut, a hoot. The Technicolor is psychedelic, the routines surrealistic, especially "The Lady in the Tutti-Frutti Hat," the production number Berkeley concocted for Carmen Miranda. Does the banana xylophone...

Now that Charles Peters has finished with Five Days in Philadelphia, we should draft him to overhaul the American history textbooks inflicted upon the youth of the nation. Dense in both senses of the word, these books induce a loathing of history and leave a...

Now that Charles Peters has finished with Five Days in Philadelphia, we should draft him to overhaul the American history textbooks inflicted upon the youth of the nation. Dense in both senses of the word, these books induce a loathing of history and leave a...