OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - From junior high kids performing a play in Latin to Nobelist Orhan Pamuk and author Martin Amis reading from their own work, the homegrown "Thacker Mountain Radio" embraces everything from the quirky to the sublime.They rolled up the garage-style front windows to let in the balmy breeze. The store's resident cat, a long-haired tortoiseshell named Mamacita, stretched lazily on the ledge. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Palestinian gunmen killed three young sons of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer Monday, pumping dozens of bullets into their car as it passed through a street crowded with schoolchildren in an apparent botched assassination attempt that could ignite widespread factional fighting.In the attack, gunmen in two vehicles riddled the car carrying the children with some 60 bullets, Palestinian security officials said. Balousheh's three sons - Osama, 9, Ahmed, 6, and Salam, 3 - were killed, in addition to an adult, hospital officials said. Balousheh was not in the car."Palestinian security has opened an investigation into the incident, which we consider the ugliest" in the growing chaos in Gaza, the officials said in a statement.During the funeral procession, mourners shouted "God is great" amid the sound of gunfire. Balousheh arrived surrounded by bodyguards, wiping his eyes as he tried not to cry.Oxford - with 13,600 residents and just over 14,000 University of Mississippi students - is a magnet for countless bar bands. One of its part-time residents is bestseller John Grisham, who owns a sprawling yellow house on the western edge of town. One of the top tourist attractions is Rowan Oak, home of the late Nobel laureate William Faulkner.Woodward, in fact, has written several best-selling books since Watergate, mostly about the inner workings of government entities. He remains a managing editor at the Washington Post, for the most part well regarded in journalistic circles, and comfortably well-off financially. Bernstein has also written a couple of books, neither of which brought him much acclaim or monetary success. He left the Post shortly after Watergate and, as Shepard details, moved to New York, joined the celebrity party circle and lived lavishly. He married noted author Nora Ephron, but their marriage disintegrated and so, apparently, did the bulk of the money he had made from his Watergate fame.Earlier this month, Abbas announced that talks on forming a unity government between Hamas and Fatah had broken down. Last weekend, he raised the possibility of calling early elections, drawing angry protests by Hamas, which said he does not have the authority to dissolve the Hamas-dominated parliament.OXFORD, Miss. (AP) - From junior high kids performing a play in Latin to Nobelist Orhan Pamuk and author Martin Amis reading from their own work, the homegrown "Thacker Mountain Radio" embraces everything from the quirky to the sublime.Security officials said they believed the shooting was an attempt to assassinate Balousheh, noting that the car's windows were tinted, blocking a view of the passengers. Gunmen had twice before tried to kill Balousheh.About an hour and a half before airtime one night this fall, workers turned the book store into a radio studio by rolling a half-dozen book cabinets out of the middle of the floor and snap-snap- snapping 200 wooden folding chairs into neat, tight rows.In the final analysis, Woodward and Bernstein is really two stories emanating from one. Shepard's smooth-flowing writing tells all three of them with literary expertise.A generation knows them only through Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, the actors who played them in the movie "All the President's Men." But Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the Washington Post reporters who exposed the shenanigans of a president following a burglary in the Watergate office complex in Washington, live full and, at least for one of them, journalistically fruitful lives outside of celluloid.During the funeral procession, mourners shouted "God is great" amid the sound of gunfire. Balousheh arrived surrounded by bodyguards, wiping his eyes as he tried not to cry.
