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Strike isn't going anywhere, however, unless down the drain is somewhere. He is sick with worry when Rodney, the fluky street lord who is his drug wholesaler, tells him that Darryl, another of his lieutenants, is cheating and must be killed -- "got to be got." Rodney seems to be saying Strike should do the job, and Strike is no shooter. Then Strike hears that Darryl has been shot and that Strike's brother Victor, a straight-arrow who works two jobs and has never had a parking ticket, has confessed. Rocco Klein, a white detective who's more honest...
...italics, which is the way Thomas M. Lauderdale does everything. Thomas--everyone calls him Thomas--is wearing hiked-up khakis (so comfortable), a cream-colored print tie decorated with nuclear radiation symbols (too cool) and a woman's fire-engine red felt jacked (isn't it marvelous?) Little Lord Fauntleroy meets Little Red Riding Hood. His accessories for the day include a plastic Jetsons wristwatch, a pink fluorescent pen and, of course, his sleek mud-brown cigarettes. "It's all about accessories," Thomas insists. Definitely put that in your article...
...Father." So decided a legislative General Conference in Louisville last week as it endorsed a Book of Worship with innovative options for America's 8.9 million United Methodists. The most startling new prayer, unearthed from the 11th century writings of St. Anselm, is addressed to Jesus: ". . . In truth, Lord, you are my Mother...
...weak to do it alone, I couldn't get myself together, but then I found the Lord Renee is doing it too. She's an entirely changed person, she's dropped all her old associates, that's what you have...
...Lord Carrington, the European Community's designated mediator, is not alone, however, when he insists that Milosevic bears most, but by no means all, of the blame. The Serb leader may have summoned the nationalist genie, but it was a spirit just waiting to be uncorked from its tightly capped bottle. Throughout a 74-year existence, Yugoslavia has been a powder keg of ethnic, national and religious hatreds that go back for centuries. The country that is now vanishing was an artificial creation of conflicting cultures, patched together in the wake of two world wars. Orthodox Serbs, Catholic Croats...