Biography EssayThe coming-of-age of a mature crime fiction in England, to which P. D. James has contributed prominently, can be attributed to a variety of disparate causes: the rapid changes in a soci...
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The British author P(hyllis) D(orothy) James (born 1920) wrote in the tradition of the British crime storyteller, but her extensive explorations of relationships, motivations, and meanings of justice ...
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[This entry was updated by Ann Sanders Cargill (Columbia, S.C.) from the entry by Bernard Benstock (University of Miami) in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 180-199....
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P. D. James is the inheritor of some of the most distinguished literary mantles in popular fiction, those previously worn by detective-story writers who achieved near perfection in their craft. James'...
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Baghdad (dpa) - Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki on Wednesday
described as "terrorists" the architects of the previous day's bomb
attack near a Shiite mosque in central Baghdad,...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
TO BE A JOURNALIST IN IRAQ (The New York Times, New York)
The International Women's Media Foundation awarded its ''courage
in journalism ...
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More than a hundred activists demonstrated Tuesday outside the gates of the U.S. Naval Academy, offering their own very public take on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as representatives of more tha...
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Iraq's prime minister said national reconciliation was the key to ending the daily barrage of violence in his country, calling on world leaders to help bring bickering factions together but offerin...
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GAZA/TEL AVIV, Feb 5 (Reuters) - A day on, there is scant
trace of the air strike that killed Amer Qarmout -- a small
crater in the tarmac, some dusty, bloodied shreds of clothing,
but no debris f...
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ROUNDUP: Iraq premier blames "terrorists" for lethal Baghdad blast
