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What Crumley represents to me is a seriousness of purpose and an ability rare among the major late 20th century private-eye writers to follow Raymond Chandler's lead without unintentionally parodying him. The tendency of the great P.I. writers who preceded Crumley had been to write about the same couple of big cities. Crumley wrote of the Southwest and inadvertently opened the door to a regionalism that has since exploded in mystery fiction, from Robert B. Parker's Boston to Sara Paretsky's Chicago...
...such as Ashdod and Ashkelon. Hamas may even activate suicide-bomber cells in East Jerusalem or the West Bank. Israel had prepared for the first possibility by deploying additional air-raid protection in towns as far as 25 miles (40 km) from the Gaza border. And it will probably follow up the air strikes with ground attacks aimed at neutralizing as much as it can of Hamas' military capability. But Hamas has good reason to expect that Israel's military campaign will be limited, and it believes it can come out ahead in the strategic equation despite the heavy cost...
...only likely to help the more extreme groups and parties. "We have two choices," says Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza. "We hoist the white flag or we continue resisting Israel and its aggression." There is no mistaking which course the vast majority of Arabs want to follow...
...Following Zuniga's detention, there were new calls to investigate modeling agencies and pageant organizers for dirty dollars. "We need to follow the money in these organizations to wherever it takes us," said Representative Francisco Rivera, president of the security committee in the lower house of Congress. "And if we find anything illicit, then punishments must be handed out." In reaction, several companies who had worked with Zuniga ran for cover, denying any knowledge of her actions. She was also stripped of her titles. "This organization separates itself from any activities, situations or personal relations that Laura Zuniga had outside...
...There were satisfactions in store: a rapturously received Carnegie Hall concert in 1974; Alone With Me and I'm Still Here: Confessions of a Sex Kitten, follow-ups to her '50s autobiography Thursday's Child; and her distinctive voicing of the villainous Yzma in the Disney animated feature The Emperor's New Groove and its Saturday-morning TV spinoff The Emperor's New School, which earned her two Emmys...