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That's Life (CBS, 8 p.m. - all times Eastern) If the Italian American milieu in this comedy-drama were any more overfamiliar and phony, it'd be served at The Olive Garden with unlimited breadsticks and salad. In case you should ever forget the ethnicity of the characters, the soundtrack...
To consciously signal these significant changes, Cornwell wrote “Blow Fly” in the present tense and the third person. The new books are more voyeuristic, but they lack a narrative cohesiveness, always jumping from one character to another. As a result, the plotlines are more tangled...
Nevertheless, the new books overcome these deficiencies on the strength and psychological complexity of the Scarpetta character, which won the 1999 Sherlock Award for being the best detective created by an American author. The older books had established a long history for Scarpetta, and her presence—her insecurities...
But “At Risk” never mentions Scarpetta, a fleshed-out character who inspires care and concern. The hero is the disappointingly empty Massachusetts state police investigator Winston Garano. He is handsome, a sharp dresser, and a rescuer of abused dogs, but the novella is too short...
It was no more than two years ago that Barack Obama—then a senatorial candidate for the state of Illinois and now the only African-American currently serving in the Senate— delivered a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention. His speech struck such a resounding...