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As spy fever once again gripped Britain after the confession of an 87-year-old great-grandmother that she had given British nuclear secrets to the Russians, the Times of India said Monday that "[l]ike diamonds, it seems, spies are forever."
In praising John Frankenheimer's earlier works, Ross is much too gripped by a childish auteuristic fascination with the technical aspects of what are very minor works.
Critics call it "richer and more profoundly disturbing than Anne Frank's journals" (Jesse Birnbaum, Time ). Peter Gay writes in the New York Times Book Review that "even the reader familiar with Holocaust material must be gripped by these pages" and that the book has a "concrete, vivid power that is, and I think will remain, unsurpassed."
The Taliban is both a product of and a reaction to the civil war that has gripped Afghanistan since the demise of the Soviet-backed regime in 1992.
The South China Morning Post described scenes of "unconfined joy" and "delight" at the arrival of the People's Liberation Army, and according to Britain's Independent , "[a]lmost everyone agreed that China's resumption of sovereignty would help wipe out a turf war that has gripped Macau's gambling industry and sparked 39 triad gangster killings this year alone."