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A critique of fiction from Milan Kundera to Garrison Keillor, biographies about Yeats and Che Guevara, and political works that advocate torture and question monogamy.
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Book Reviews: Dershowitz: "Why Terrorism Works"
http://davidabel8.blogspot.com/2005/05/dershowitz-why-terrorism-works.html
A critique of fiction from Milan Kundera to Garrison Keillor, biographies about Yeats and Che Guevara, and political works that advocate torture and question monogamy. Dershowitz: "Why Terrorism Works". Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat,. Responding to the Challenge;". By Alan M. Dershowitz;. A PERSUASIVE CASE FOR STRONG ANTI-TERROR MEASURES. By David Abel Globe Staff 11/06/2002. Sound cruel and unusual for a Harvard Law professor? Conventional wisdom, for example, would have it that in all c...
Book Reviews: Finkel: “The Good Soldiers”
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A critique of fiction from Milan Kundera to Garrison Keillor, biographies about Yeats and Che Guevara, and political works that advocate torture and question monogamy. Finkel: “The Good Soldiers”. The Good Soldiers;”. By David Finkel;. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; pp: 284. The Suffering Behind The Surge. By David Abel Globe Staff 10/14/2009. In his powerful account of one Army battalion’s struggle to stanch the violence roiling several neighborhoods in Baghdad, David Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning. Despi...
Book Reviews: Rosen: "The Unwanted Gaze"
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A critique of fiction from Milan Kundera to Garrison Keillor, biographies about Yeats and Che Guevara, and political works that advocate torture and question monogamy. Rosen: "The Unwanted Gaze". The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America;". By Jeffrey Rosen;. By David Abel Globe Staff 7/12/2000. For much of the past century, two dystopian visions have loomed over Western society. David Abel can be reached at dabel@globe.com. Posted by David Abel. Click on picture for my bio. Boyle: "A Frie...
Book Reviews: O'Shaughnessy: "Pinochet: The Politics of Torture"
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A critique of fiction from Milan Kundera to Garrison Keillor, biographies about Yeats and Che Guevara, and political works that advocate torture and question monogamy. O'Shaughnessy: "Pinochet: The Politics of Torture". Pinochet: The Politics of Torture;". By Hugh O'Shaughnessy;. New York University Press;. WHEN THE ENDS DON'T JUSTIFY THE MEANS. 8220;I've got a sour face, perhaps that's why they say I'm a dictator.”. Augusto Pinochet, August 1986. By David Abel Globe Staff 4/28/2000. The book - more a wo...
Book Reviews: Vonnegut: "Timequake"
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A critique of fiction from Milan Kundera to Garrison Keillor, biographies about Yeats and Che Guevara, and political works that advocate torture and question monogamy. By Kurt Vonnegut;. The Palm Beach Post. It's with a peculiar pleasure, one that maybe only Kurt Vonnegut, with his cross-eyed wisdom, might appreciate, that I trash what one of my favorite writers describes as his last book. Johannes Brahms quit composing symphonies when he was 55. Enough! The striking thing about Timequake is that it's a ...
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Random: Plugging Leaks
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What led a man to write a 1,905-page suicide note? What does it mean to have a library without books? What happens when the state makes it easier for neighbors to seek restraining orders against each other? Over the years, I have written a wide range of stories that don't fall into neat categories. Here are the highlights. With gizmos and grit, technicians detect leaks, protect labyrinth of water pipes under Boston. December 20, 2008. Over the past decade, as erosion and widespread construction have weak...
Kosovo War Stories: Risking the Gunships
http://davidabel5.blogspot.com/2005/06/risking-gunships.html
For 78 days in the spring of 1999, some 1,000 NATO aircraft flew more than 38,000 sorties in an effort to force Serbian forces out of Kosovo. I covered the war from Washington and Macedonia, writing about the first Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a non-U.S. ship, the flood of refugees to flee Kosovo, military plans to launch helicopter gunships, etc. Gunships poised for battle, but risks may keep them grounded. By David Abel The Boston Globe 5/22/1999. The reason: The copters, which cost $14 million ...
Travel stories: Egypt: Before the Revolt
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A sampling of first-person pieces from Asia to Latin America to Africa, including accounts of scaling a mountain to Fidel Castro's secret rebel headquarters, nearly getting stranded in the deserts of Namibia, and failed efforts to camp in Iceland. Egypt: Before the Revolt. Click here for more pictures of Egypt. By David Abel Globe Staff 4/15/2011. 8212; In historical terms, it was eons before Tahrir Square became a symbol of liberty. When we met Adel at the cafe and invited him to sit for a drink, he tol...
Academia stories: The Nonbelievers
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For more than two years, I wrote about academia in New England, covering everything from organized labor's efforts to unionize graduate students to oddball professors pushing lonely causes. Some scoops made national news, including Harvard professor Cornel West's row with Larry Summers, a cheating scandal at Dartmouth, and admissions errors at Northeastern University. In his position, which is endowed, he has helped marry and bury fellow atheists. He has presided over baby-naming ceremonies and organ...
Photographs: My Photo Ops
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With mainly point and shoot cameras, I have shot deserts and jungles, mountains and salt flats, underwater and in the air. My subjects include blue-footed boobies in the Galapagos, the red dunes of Western Namibia, and children at play and adults at work from the Middle East to Southeast Asia and beyond. JESSEY DEARING FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE. While reporting on the inside of the Massachusetts prison system, Globe reporter David Abel tastes the "seafood surprise" at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole.
City Stories: Powder Keg
http://davidabelcity.blogspot.com/2006/06/powder-keg.html
As an editor and writer for City Weekly, I looked for the idiosyncratic, stories about those such as a 97-year-old hitchhiker, a hairdresser who very carefully cut the pricey wigs worn by Orthodox Jewish women, a meth dealer who went from driving an Infiniti to the brink of homelessness, and tugboat captains battling with sea pilots for respect on the harbor. By David Abel Globe Staff 1/22/2006. The case exposed a loophole in the city's latest effort to control student drinking. With little fanfare a...
Profiles of the Homeless: Panhandling on Craigslist
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Profiles of the Homeless. Why would a former elementary school teacher forsake shelter to sleep outside in a blizzard? How could someone leave prison without anywhere better to sleep than beside his mother's grave? How could a man go from Harvard to living on a park bench? I spent a year covering homelessness, trying to answer such questions. These are the stories of people I met. Panhandlers move from street to Internet. October 26, 2009. I've always looked on Craigslist for odd jobs, so the idea to pos...
Latin America Stories: Silencing Critics in Venezuela?
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From the glaciers of Tierra del Fuego to the ports of the Caribbean, I spent several years chronicling everything from people smuggling in the Dominican Republic to the rise of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez to the effects of the drug trade in Mexico and beyond. Silencing Critics in Venezuela? By David Abel The Boston Globe 9/14/1999. But Rolando Salazar, who caricatures the president with studied detail, is not sure if his play is a comedy or tragedy. Chavez says he respects freedom of expression, but you don'...
Military stories: Preparing for Casualties
http://davidabel6.blogspot.com/2005/07/preparing-for-casualties.html
For a year, I lived in Washington and wrote about the military, covering exercises aboard aircraft carriers, the controversy surrounding the Navy's testing range just off Puerto Rico, and arcane issues including problems with submarine warfare and missile defense, the nation's war strategy, and everything from pork in the defense budget to fraud by contractors. Bringing Good Medicine to Bad Places'. By David Abel Globe Staff 10/23/2001. As military planners prepare for the first large-scale US ground com...
Cuba stories: A Cheap Thrill
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Before being deported during the first legal celebration of Christmas Eve, and despite harassment by Cuban officials, I spent several months in 1998 writing about the regime’s flirtation with capitalism, budding dissident movements and the limits of free expression, and the many ironies 40 years after the revolution, including the regime promoting golf and welcoming U.S. tourists. A Sweet Promise Communism Fulfilled. By David Abel Newsday 7/12/1998. So the revolutionaries knocked down an old hospital on ...
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Poverty stories
In addition to homelessness, I covered the trials of welfare dads, the unemployed who gave up looking for work, the indigent elderly who ate in soup kitchens and hitchhiked, and the immigrants, mentally ill, and disabled, among others, who coped with poverty and welfare reform. Preying on the Poor. By David Abel Globe Staff 1/13/2003. Christmas broke me," said Williams, after leaving the branch on a recent night. "I need the money - I've got bills, kids, and life to take care of now.". One of about 40,00...
Academia stories
For more than two years, I wrote about academia in New England, covering everything from organized labor's efforts to unionize graduate students to oddball professors pushing lonely causes. Some scoops made national news, including Harvard professor Cornel West's row with Larry Summers, a cheating scandal at Dartmouth, and admissions errors at Northeastern University. So It Goes For Vonnegut. At 78, Still Shaking up the Establishment. By David Abel Globe Staff 5/05/2001. He should be dead by now. For muc...
Kosovo War Stories
For 78 days in the spring of 1999, some 1,000 NATO aircraft flew more than 38,000 sorties in an effort to force Serbian forces out of Kosovo. I covered the war from Washington and Macedonia, writing about the first Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from a non-U.S. ship, the flood of refugees to flee Kosovo, military plans to launch helicopter gunships, etc. 257: IN TWICE THE STEPS. The Terrain Turns Hostile. Peacekeepers find they're now a military force, with an enemy. In 30 seconds, the radio had gone dea...
Military stories
For a year, I lived in Washington and wrote about the military, covering exercises aboard aircraft carriers, the controversy surrounding the Navy's testing range just off Puerto Rico, and arcane issues including problems with submarine warfare and missile defense, the nation's war strategy, and everything from pork in the defense budget to fraud by contractors. By David Abel Defense Week 8/23/1999. VIEQUES, Puerto Rico. And he promises he won't leave until the Navy does. Ventura is one of scores of full-...
Travel stories
A sampling of first-person pieces from Asia to Latin America to Africa, including accounts of scaling a mountain to Fidel Castro's secret rebel headquarters, nearly getting stranded in the deserts of Namibia, and failed efforts to camp in Iceland. Swimming underground in a sapphire serenity. Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula has thousands of cenotes. Pictured, bathers in Cenote Samula, near Chichen Itza. APRIL 18, 2015. 8220;Where’s the cenote? 8221; I asked in Spanish. My wife, Jess, decided to stay behind wit...
Book Reviews
A critique of fiction from Milan Kundera to Garrison Keillor, biographies about Yeats and Che Guevara, and political works that advocate torture and question monogamy. Barash and Lipton: "The Myth of Monogamy". Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infedility in Animals and People,". By David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton;. W H Freeman;. A SOBER LOOK AT FACTS, FALLACIES ABOUT FIDELITY. This is not the sort of book you want to be seen reading in public. Of course, the ultimate message of David Barash and Judit...
Profiles, Etc.
These are some of the people I've profiled over the years. They include a former grand wizard of the KKK, a pedophile after prison, an aging hobo, a scientist bent on curing pets' boredom, and a chain-smoking microbiologist who created the world's most deadly strain of anthrax. Teresa O'Leary never recovered from the murder of her family - until the day she decided to die. By David Abel The Boston Globe Magazine 7/18/2004. The pain had mostly worn off when the phone rang. Then the line went dead. Last su...
City Stories
As an editor and writer for City Weekly, I looked for the idiosyncratic, stories about those such as a 97-year-old hitchhiker, a hairdresser who very carefully cut the pricey wigs worn by Orthodox Jewish women, a meth dealer who went from driving an Infiniti to the brink of homelessness, and tugboat captains battling with sea pilots for respect on the harbor. By David Abel Globe Staff 11/23/2003. I met Arnold two years before at one of his church dinners, a soup kitchen a few blocks from his apartment...
David Abele - Realtor
David Abele - Realtor. Saturday, December 12, 2009. My new favorite Vegas lounge. Just one week young, City Center Las Vegas. Is open for business! Well, mostly. Crystals shopping complex is about 50 occupied with more stores "opening soon" and Aria Hotel/Casino opens next week BUT Vdara and the Mandarin Oriental Hotel are up and running. I took a walk around the development last night and came across the Mandarin Bar. On the 23rd floor of the self named luxury hotel. Being new, I need to cut them a bit ...
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The Environment Beat
I have covered the demise of cod in the waters off New England, the accelerating melt of the Arctic Ocean and its impact on the northernmost city in North America, the health risks of fine particulate matter in the atmosphere, the trials of curbing lead poisoning while the federal government cuts funding, among many other stories. The Great Melt at the Top of the World. DAVID L. RYAN/GLOBE STAFF. By David Abel Globe Staff July 12, 201. They were also in a race with much bigger stakes. On this day early l...
