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...series follows Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a U.S. Marshal who has been booted from a plum post in Miami after a high-profile shooting garnered unwanted publicity: he beat a mobster to the draw western-style, though at a table at a fancy restaurant. The bureau moves him to Harlan County, Kentucky, where Givens grew up and which he then escaped - running from, among other things, a criminal father who's now in jail...
Olyphant's Givens is less rigid and more likable, but his sense of duty also comes from a very personal and dark place. There's a remarkable scene in the pilot in which he uses the threat of his quick draw to talk down a thug with a shotgun pointed at Givens' head - "Can you rack in a load before I put a hole through you?" - which left me with a thorough man crush on him. But then he bashes the goon's face against a steering wheel for a bit of back talk, and for a fleeting second...
...begin to see here why his bosses wonder how quick-draw, hair-trigger Givens manages to have so many "justified" shootings and whether he isn't acting out some sort of vendetta psychodrama - or a death wish. Nor are they the first to wonder about him. As his ex-wife says after he politely pops by for what's meant to be a friendly chat (by way of breaking into her house in the middle of the night), "You're the angriest man I have ever known." His sartorial quirks mark him not just as a throwback...
...comes into three parts. First of all, it shows that even though nutritional scientists have not given very much attention to this, the first big impact of cooking is to increase the amount of energy we get out of our food. This second thing it does is draw attention to the fact that humans appear to be biologically adapted to eating their food cooked. And the third part of the book looks at what it means for the human species to be adapted in this way, and there I think about both our anatomy and our behavior...
Sestak, who grew up in Delaware County, has the potential to draw the liberal Democratic base away from Specter in the May 18 primary. He's striking a chord with those who have spent the past three decades working to get Specter out of office. "I think there's been too much Republican lite and not enough real Democrats around," says Darwin Roseberry, a Democratic committeeman from West Rockhill Township who showed up to hear Sestak speak at a St. Patrick's Day breakfast in Bucks County. "Specter is not a real Democrat...