THE FACE AT THE WINDOW
Like a clap of thunder, the north wind, rushing seawards,
seemed suddenly to threaten the ancient little building
with destruction. The window sashes rattled,
the beams wh...
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While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips ...
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Last night's season finale (which precedes a final season) offered one benediction after another, and just about every one felt unearned. The show played with the viewer. It hinted two or three tim...
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Stunned by the revelation that a British scientist was passing American nuclear secrets to the Soviets immediately after World War II, diplomats feared the scandal could result in Britain's exclusi...
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"Don't get lost in the wilderness of mirrors," Kim Philby, the English archmole, warns his CIA colleague in TNT's "The Company," a six-hour, three-part docudrama about the CIA, the KGB and the Cold...
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Al-Qaida's No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri said in a new message Friday that last month's U.S.-sponsored Mideast peace conference was a "betrayal" of the Palestinians, the terror group's first reaction to t...
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It was not that long ago that the big political question was how Rudolph Giuliani would do against Hillary Clinton in the November election.The Iowa caucus votes have made that question sound like ...
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Fast-food waitress Fawn Townsend of Raleigh, N.C., knows exactly what she is going to do if her salary goes up with Tuesday's increase in the federal minimum wage: start saving for a car so she can...
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Fast-food waitress Fawn Townsend of Raleigh, N.C., knows exactly what she is going to do if her salary goes up with Tuesday's increase in the federal minimum wage: start saving for a car so she can...
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The Sundance Film Festival, long-time epicenter of independent film, announced today that it will unspool a whopping 87 world premieres in its 31st running. "This year, a lot of people came out of...
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On the evening of Sept. 15, former President Bill Clinton stood at the center of a flock of reporters and well-wishers at Nobu 57. The first day of his sprawlingly ambitious conference, the Clinton...
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