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...even ancient Rome had its shamuses. Falco wisecracks his way through the empire's sleazy underside to provide amusing lessons on the way crime, greed and cover-ups were endemic even in 70 B.C. In the 17th Falco novel, See Delphi and Die, the Eternal City's original tough guy takes on the tourist industry. (Rome invented that too.) Davis' crimes are wickedly convoluted, but Falco's facetious tongue and domestic complications are the real...
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WHAT'S NOT You'll get a workout lugging it around: the unit weighs 13 1/2 lbs. You'll also need a separate tuner, the Delphi Roady (good for the car too), which adds $120 to the cost and detracts from a sleek design...
...youngest of Murdoch's four adult children, is really the right man for the job. He was a reluctant entrant into the family empire, having started his own independent hip-hop label after dropping out of Harvard. He had a hand in one of Murdoch's early Internet ventures, Delphi, which was a costly disaster. He then took over the entire new-media sector for News Corp., which lost hundreds of millions of dollars and never created a leading web-site in any category. Since then, however, James has scored higher marks for his performance as head of STAR...
...insight into its timing, source or nature. Still, Schwartz's writing carries a stubborn credibility, even as he brushes with science fiction, predicting, for example, physical teleporting by 2050. Perhaps our cynical era craves being told metanarratives, even while we can see the cracks. Was it easier at Delphi? Perhaps. Once we get that teleporter working, maybe we can go back and see what the future used to look like...