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...Hariri's murder could once again unleash the violent centrifugal forces that originally brought Syria in. The postwar political order has sought to preserve a fragile balance among the warlords on all sides by reserving the presidency for a Christian, the prime minister's job for a Sunni Muslim and the role of Speaker of Parliament for a Shiite. Hariri was a Sunni, of course, but many of the remaining Sunni leadership are historically close to Syria, as is the current Christian president, Emil Lahoud - although other Christian politicians are more critical of Syria. The Shiites, some of whom have...
...MURDER ONE: SEASON...
BEFORE THERE was 24, there was One. In 1995-'96, Steven Bochco's Murder One took a full season to tell a single story: the trial of a famous actor (Jason Gedrick) for the murder of a 15-year-old girl. The experiment was bracing, intense and a ratings failure. Maybe, in the autumn of O.J. Simpson's acquittal, it was hard to sell a celebrity murder story in which the high-priced defense team, headed by no-nonsense Ted Hoffman (Daniel Benzali), was more sympathetic than police and prosecutors. Maybe audiences weren't ready for a serial format...
...keeping with Crichton’s characteristic style, the novel is a tangled web of romance and murder that takes readers on a whirlwind tour that hits Antarctica, the Solomon Islands, and countless less exotic destinations (including fair Cambridge). Hero John Kenner is an MIT professor who sets out to stop eco-terrorists from carrying out their nefarious plans...
Pasquarello said that even though the murder rate was zero, the number of shootings last year was similar to 2003. The exact number of shootings has not been compiled, he said...