Word: fatales
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...title refers to a research unit where the decomposition of bodies is studied. Scarpetta uses its grisly expertise to track a serial killer whose latest victim is an 11-year-old girl. What she finds is chilling, unexpected and nearly fatal. The author uses the momentum that a good series develops: an evil presence from an earlier book lurks in the background, and Scarpetta's love affair foreshadows trouble in Book Six. In the messy present, a running squabble with a neurotic, self-absorbed sister is fine family comedy...
Common Cause today led a charge by public-interest groups to lay the blame for the failure of the finance-reform bill squarely on President Clinton and the Democrats, whom they accused of fatal legislative dithering...
...When it comes to prostate cancer, an ounce of prevention may lead to too much cure. According to a controversial mathematical analysis, routine screening of men over age 50 may lead to treatment of tumors that are growing so slowly they are unlikely to prove fatal. In those cases, the risk that surgery could cause incontinence or impotence may be greater than the risk of dying from cancer...
...Stade, in top form) is an archmanipulator who wields her sensual allure like a double-edged sword, encouraging her lover's worst instincts as she wreaks her revenge on society. Her foil, the unapologetic knave Valmont (the splendid baritone Thomas Hampson), is a cynical womanizer who makes the fatal mistake of falling in love with one of his victims, unwisely and too well. Who is worse? The amoral rake who seduces and abandons without remorse? Or the wily temptress who sends her dark knight on errant missions of the heart? In this telling, the two protagonists not only are equally...
Usually, such a determination by the press can be fatal to a political career, but Quayle is fortunate that he has a few factors working to his advantage. The first is that the press did too good a job of making Quayle out to be a joke. It refused to let him fade away, but rather constantly went after him to such an extent that some voters feel sorry for Quayle, and everyone knows who he is. Some perceive him as the victim of a vendetta, not his own actions. After all, could anyone really he that...