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...GENRE Serial-killer thriller
...SETUP Dexter is a forensic analyst with the Miami police department, specializing in the study of blood-spatter patterns. Dexter is also an emotionless serial murderer, driven by a remorseless alter ego he calls the Dark Passenger. He only kills people who deserve it--isn't that nice?--but when another serial killer starts preying on the citizens of Miami, Dexter hears the call of a kindred spirit. Or possibly some very unfriendly competition...
...Nevertheless, though he prefers the stiletto to the sledgehammer, Butler did chronicle a damning parade of errors. It turns out that three of five British agents in Iraq whose reports helped convince London that Saddam was amassing a WMD stockpile were frauds, or mistaken. Because Saddam was such a serial liar, analysts repeatedly assumed the worst. In September 2002, when Blair's government wanted to convince the public to take a tougher line against Saddam, it turned to its top clearinghouse for secret information, the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), to produce a dossier on Iraq's supposed...
...talk. Although the operation is entirely digital, the work is nonetheless laborious. Garud, who is employed by a Bombay studio called Crest Communication, has to manipulate Ferny's lip movements to match the words the character speaks in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks, an Emmy Award-nominated cartoon serial on America's PBS network. While Garud handles Ferny's lip-synching, a colleague is in charge of the movements of other taurine body parts; another is making one of Ferny's friends, a sheep named Wiley, come to life. The work might be time consuming and repetitive, but Garud...
...Master Detective. That entailed going down to the police department, the sheriff's office, to get the story. I went back to school to get a degree in police science. Over the next 14 years, I probably covered more than 1,000 cases, mostly murders, some bank robbers, some serial rapists...