At the end of And Then There Were None, a character reflects – in the space of one sentence – on how someone might have solved the mystery, and outlines a thoroughly logical and wonderfully paradoxical way in which rational deduction could have led to the identification of the killer.
"Evidence based criminal justice policy is a priority if we are serious about reducing victimization," Byrne said, noting "most sex offenders will be released into the community at the end of their sentence regardless of how we might feel about their presence".
Tom Wolfe had no idea what I was up to when I asked if as a personal favor he would give me a "one-sentence description" of how Henry VIII dressed, based on the Holbein portrait I sent along.
I talk about the sentences of Saul Bellow and Lorrie Moore, how enraptured I was, how I wanted to emulate them.
In an exclusive written interview with The Westmorland Gazette nine months into his sentence, Park talked of how he had struggled with prison, saying: "They [other inmates] may smoke incessantly, play loud music, the TV or video games, rifle your drawers, steal, lie etc.
Instead, the focus was on innovative activities that make the most of life sentences or descriptions of how inmates conspire to obstruct the view of prison guards during nocturnal armed assaults.
The major Democratic mayoral candidates -- Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone, Public Advocate Mark Green, Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi and Mr. Ferrer -- condemned the sentences, a sign of how powerful this issue is to Puerto Rican voters in the city.
That mean-spirited sentence is an indication of how even in a US angry and rueful about Iraq, it is still difficult to suggest that Iran has arguments and interests worth considering on their merits.
The sentence is "an indication of how strong the Indonesian government's commitment continues to be in terms of prosecuting terrorism in open trials and through effective law enforcement," said Sidney Jones, an expert on south-east Asian terrorism at the International Crisis Group, an NGO that researches conflict.
To say that I left my heart in Mykonos this summer is a sentence that falls short of how I felt after two glorious weeks in the Greek paradise.
