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...time, mail was dropped off up to four times a day--could stop what would spell catastrophe for the USPS: e-mail, which is faster, easier and free. That, coupled with the fact that 4 out of 5 households with Internet access now pay bills online, has left mail carriers out in the cold. In 2009 alone, post offices saw a 13% drop in mail volume. Forget rain or gloom of night--it's the act of clicking Send billions of times a day that may finally stay those trusty couriers...
Three villages in eastern Uganda were devastated by a March 1 landslide that killed at least 86 people and left hundreds missing. The region, which has been plagued with unusually high rainfall over the past few months, is under alert for additional slides, and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has ordered residents to move away from vulnerable hillsides...
...mining buddy who has become a white supremacist and bank robber. (The pilot is based on a Leonard story, "Fire in the Hole," and Givens' old entanglements at home are a continuing story in later episodes.) As he chases Boyd and his crew, the ghosts of the life he left - his ex-wife Winona (Natalie Zea), his old flame and Boyd's sister-in-law Ava (Joelle Carter), his as-yet-unseen jailed daddy - begin to attach to him. (Watch an interview with Elmore Leonard...
...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, a flash of pure fury glints in his eyes...
...funny show, with taut dialogue and a distinct sense of place. Its supporting characters are a riot of wiseass agents, sardonic thieves and big- and small-time hustlers. Its Harlan County is both timeless and of the moment, plagued with meth heads and skinheads and littered with overbuilt developments left over from the housing boom. (The fourth episode moves the action to Los Angeles as Givens chases a fugitive from his past. It's excellent as well, but the sunny setting changes the tone so much, to the lighter hard-boiledness of Leonard adaptations like Get Shorty, that it almost...