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24 Days (Keyes review) ****
ISBN:0060520736
Author:Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller
Publisher:Harper Business, $25.95 (USD); $36.95 (CAD); 400 pp
As the fraud trials begin in New York for executives from Credit Suisse First Boston Corp. and Tyco International, the legal teams for the gang of scoundrels who ran Enron will be doubtless watching closely, because their clients are next....
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Alphabet: Pen pals *
A new inside-the-joint book
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Blasts hit London again, 2 weeks after train bombs *
Four small coordinated explosions hit London's bus and underground train network on Thursday, injuring one person, exactly two weeks after bombers killed more than 50 people in the British capital.
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Book about Homolka returns *
Paperback edition without the photos...
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Countdown to Karla Homolka release begins *
With 45 days to go in Karla Homolka's countdown to freedom, news organizations have snapped up every apartment with a view of the Joliette prison yard. Photographers periodically congregate on nearby rooftops, hoping for a shot of her pouty face and incongruous halo of blond tresses.
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Define irony: Former Sopranos actor faces real-life murder charges *
An actor who once played an aspiring mobster on The Sopranos faces murder charges along with another man in the death of an off-duty police officer, authorities said Sunday.
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Did Kepler kill Tycho? *
Two writers believe the mathematician, in his desperate bid to deduce the true nature of the planetary orbits, poisoned the astronomer to gain access to his log books. DAN FALK checks out their evidence.
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Elementary, dear teacher *
Schools are discovering a new way to promote interest in history, writes ALANNA MITCHELL, by resurrecting cold cases from Canada's past -- and asking gumshoes across the country to crack them.
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Feds Bust U.S.-Canada Smuggling Tunnel *
Federal agents have shut down an elaborate, 360-foot drug-smuggling tunnel dug underneath the U.S.-Canadian border -- the first such passageway discovered along the nation's northern edge, officials said Thursday.
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Homolka author released on bail *
The author of two controversial books about sex killers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka was back in court Thursday to face 94 more counts of disobeying a court order and violating a publication ban.
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Karla Homolka says she's not dangerous and doesn't want to be hunted down *
Convicted killer Karla Homolka had only just slipped out of her "prison of stone" Monday when she appeared on television to profess penitence for her unspeakable past and to assure Canadians she's not the monster she's been made out to be.
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Karla publisher sues Random House *
The Montreal publisher of a controversial book about serial killer Karla Homolka is suing Random House of Canada for alleged copyright infringement.
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Lynn Coady: A case of made-in-Canada writer chill *
Last summer, south of the Canadian border -- in the land of racial profiling and the proposed Patriot Act -- friends of Ontario writers Marsha Boulton and Stephen Williams were horrified at what they were hearing. The couple had made an impromptu trip to New York, not so much out of a burning desire to see these old acquaintances but, they explained to their friends, to "escape the persecution."
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Murder most monosyllabic *
RAY CONLOGUE talks to the king of crime, Elmore Leonard, about his craft.
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Murder, Torture, Loss...Book Profiles Canadians Who Survived it All *
Based on Paula Todd’s widely viewed television show Person 2 Person, an intimate biography program about human behaviour, A Quiet Courage shows us that it is often ordinary people who have something extraordinary to teach us.
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Paper Fan (Keyes review) *****
I approached Paper Fan with genuine interest, considerable respect and some degree of misgiving. The book turns out to be an absolute page-turner...
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Police arrest three in Canada-US drug tunnel raid *
Three people have been arrested after police raided a sophisticated tunnel intended to smuggle drugs under the U.S.-Canada border between BC and Washington state, police said on Thursday.
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The case of the seized computer *
Marsha Boulton is best known as a Stephen Leacock Award-winning humour writer, but her latest book is taking her real life deep into crime-thriller territory, with many volleys and ripostes between her and the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney-General.
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America ****
Larson's conceit here is that architect Daniel Hudson Burnham's brilliant masterminding of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and serial killer H. H. Holmes's murderous scheming were parallel entry points to a new America.
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Double take on murder: Eileen Wuornos *
The directors of two new films talk about serial killer Eileen Wuornos.
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John Lennon: A personal reminiscence *
On the 25th anniversary of his untimely death:
John Lennon was our conscience. He embodied the spirit of our belief in candour, in accountability, in someone standing up for what is right, simply because it is right.
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Karla movie gets 18A rating in Ontario *
Ontario is the first province to classify a Hollywood movie about infamous convicted killers Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo that is to be released in Canadian theatres next Friday.
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Karla's psychiatric report released *
Karla Homolka saw Québec as “a separate country” where it would be easy to blend in after her release from prison for helping to kill two Ontario schoolgirls, court documents say.
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