After all, summer is coming, sounds like the novels would make for good beach reading. (They absolutely do.) But why should you care about Dick Francis when it comes to business?
It sounds like summer camp, but Warm Springs was in fact a retreat with a mission: to heal the spirits and bodies of Americans who'd been afflicted with polio before the Salk vaccine was developed in 1954.
In recent resentful remarks about Lebanon, which Syria controlled until last summer, Mr Assad still sounds loth to come to terms with his humiliating retreat from his much smaller neighbour.