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...West still sets the standard of conduct for many in the field but not the geographic boundaries; bounty hunters roam from Manhattan to Southern California, renegades of the American criminal-justice system. Incredibly, only a handful of states have licensing requirements for bounty hunters. "The business is wide open," says Phoenix bail agent Linda Ownbey. "Anybody can get in, and anything can happen...
...Town starts with a thrill: a facsimile of the Brooklyn Bridge spanning the stage, with the orchestra perched on it. Three sailors (winsome Jose Llana, robust Robert Montano, gangly Jesse Tyler Ferguson) roam wartime New York and hook up with three gals (petite Sophia Salguero, glamorous Kate Suber, fireplug Lea DeLaria). They go places, do things, and the night air is magical, electric with fun. Wolfe brings Bergdorf mannequins and Natural History Museum troglodytes alive. Actors come with their own sound effects (taxi, subway, siren). It's like a vivid old New Yorker cartoon, animated by Tex Avery...
...face, the proposition sounds eminently reasonable. Namibia, Zimbabwe and Botswana have elephants the way New York City apartments have cockroaches. Elephants roam everywhere, tearing down trees by the acre, galumphing through the crops of irate farmers, stomping on hapless citizens. Zimbabwe alone has about 65,000 of the truck-size beasts, though its wild lands can comfortably support only half that many, and the other countries are similarly overendowed. "The elephant," says John Hutton, Zimbabwe project director of the British-based Africa Resources Trust, "was never endangered in this part of Africa...
...would be unfair to call the overtime victories lucky. In the extra minute time, four players on each side are removed to make sure that a goal is scored, and that just leaves more room for Harvard's forwards to roam. Still, the Crimson never really had any bad luck, and that can not be counted on in the future...
...winners. Drawing on expertise and sources he developed while writing Secrets of the Temple, his definitive study of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, Greider is at his best when he guides the reader through the computerized trading rooms of international financiers like George Soros and James Goldsmith as they roam the globe electronically, ready to pounce on weak economies and overvalued currencies...