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...surprise that Martin Cruz Smith, author of the Soviet-era Russian cop novel Gorky Park, has written the most interesting and richly textured crime story of the season. What is unexpected about Rose (Random House; 364 pages; $25) is its setting: not the disorder of present-day Russia but the rigidly stratified society of a Welsh coal-mining town toward the end of the 19th century. As must be true in a period thriller, the setting drives the plot and makes the crime--in this case, the disappearance and presumed murder of a young and idealistic clergyman--seem inevitable...
...American birthright to freely purchase and own handguns and large-caliber assault rifles. Why, I remember how proud I was the day my pop brought home my first fully automatic rifle and a box of teflon-sheathed "cop killer" bullets. It was my ninth birthday. I said "now if those jack-booted thugs come after me I'll be ready for them right pop?" My parents beamed with pride. They still tell that story to all our relatives...
...Kerry voted against the death penalty for cop killers and voted against the balanced budget three times.... I hope everyone studies Senator Kerry's voting record," Weld said...
Swift (Jack McCaffrey), the hero of the new drama Swift Justice (UPN, Wednesdays, 9 p.m. est), belongs to another television era, a time before cop shows like NYPD Blue, Homicide and Law & Order grounded the genre in reality with unglamorously complex characters and somber portrayals of urban life. But to all good things must come a backlash. And so Swift Justice harks back to a period of frequent car chases, poorly staged punch-outs and cartoonishly evil bad guys...
Catering to male fantasy is seemingly the point of these regressive new police dramas. All three series are vastly more violent than any other cop shows currently on network television, where the trend has been to keep the killing and maiming offscreen. In one episode of Swift Justice, we see more than a half-dozen people get shot to death, blown up and, in one scene, deliberately hit by golf balls. Sad but true. Justice was created by Dick Wolf, the producer responsible for the far more sophisticated Law & Order. "There are guys out there, 18-to-34-year-olds...