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By Bob Shacochis 5/31/99 12:00am

An Epic Mystery Unsolved, A Planet Spinning Wildly

The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Fred Cuny , by Scott Anderson. Doubleday, 374 pages, $24.95.

One can readily imagine that the frustrated, overwhelmed fleet of relief agencies struggling to manage the exodus of refugees from Kosovo dearly misses an old friend, Fred Cuny, and his Read More

By Bob Shacochis 3/08/99 12:00am

Birth of a Combat Classic: A Deadly Gauntlet in Somalia

Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War , by Mark Bowden. Atlantic Monthly Press, 386 pages, $24.

Over the course of a single afternoon in 1986, I had the unpleasant opportunity to watch while 14 people were condemned to death, one after another, on the island of Grenada. The guilty had, in the midst Read More