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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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Bookshop, a site that lets independent, bricks-and-mortar bookshops sell their books online, is launching an app that will allow the sales of e-books, too. By Alexandra Alter When Andy Hunter ...

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Along with being a Grammy-winning R&B legend and global music icon, Mary J. Blige is a twice-Oscar-nominated actress and prolific film and TV producer through her Blue Butterfly Productions label.

Caitlin gets drunk. She books a ticket to Australia to get as far away from the mess as possible, unable to cope with the stress of losing a relationship that has become part of her identity.

Kyungha once led a more stable existence. She had a family, she wrote books, and even if she was not always happy, her existence was a steady one. Yet over the course of four years she “parted ...

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